TY - BOOK AU - Asimov,Isaac TI - Foundation T2 - Foundation series SN - 0586010807 PY - 1985/// CY - London PB - Panther Books KW - Life on other planets in literature KW - Psychohistory KW - Science fiction N2 - This is the first volume of Asimov's world-famous sage, one of the great classics of science fiction. The time is a future century, in the days of Galactic Empire - a society of million worlds throughout the Milky Way. The Old Empire is crumbling into barbarism and Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists see before them only the despair of thousands of years of anarchy, unless they can create a new force - the Foundation - dedicated to art, science and technology - the nucleus of a new empire... The epic story of FOUNDATION is continued in FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE, SECOND FOUNDATION, and FOUNDATION'S EDGE, all available in Panther Books ER -