Foundation cover
5.0 / 5
Year

1951

Publisher

Gnome Press

ISBN

978-0553293357

Fiction

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

The first book in Asimov's legendary Foundation series. A sweeping tale of the fall and rise of galactic civilization.

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Storytelling tuned for readers who over-analyze everything: layered themes, callbacks that reward obsessive memory, and a world that keeps expanding in your head after the last page.

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Asimov's groundbreaking work that introduced psychohistory and the Foundation. This series explores the rise and fall of civilizations on a galactic scale.