[Foundation (Publication Order) 06] • Asimov - [Compilation De Nouvelles]

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial

throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic

Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable

technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who

would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the

future.

Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his

remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician

know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari

possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the

Empire. . .the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be

known forever after as the Foundation.