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The Foundation trilogy

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humanity, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls this sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.

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  • "Foundation and empire"@en
  • "Foundation and empire"
  • "Fondation, 1"
  • "Foundation en keizerrijk"
  • "Thousand year plan"@en
  • "Second foundation"@en
  • "Second foundation"
  • "Fondation"
  • "Tweede foundation"
  • "Segrande Stiftelsen"
  • "Seconde fondation"
  • "Stiftelsen"
  • "Foundation and Empire"
  • "One thousand year plan"@en
  • "Second Foundation"
  • "Foundation"@en
  • "Foundation"
  • "Foundation"@pl
  • "Stiftelsen och Imperiet"

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  • "For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humanity, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls this sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction."@en
  • "Three classics of Science Fiction."@en
  • "Avec ses deux suites, ce roman constitue l'un des chefs-d'oeuvre de la science-fiction classique contemporaine. A partir d'une science nouvelle, la psycho-histoire du professeur Seldon, est ľabor ̌un schm̈e futurible si bien construit qu'il en devient plausible. Fresque db̌ordante d'v̌ňements orchestrš par des personnages qui se muent en incarnations de la destině humaine. Trs̈ solide ensemble dans lequel l'art d'Asimov nout tient en haleine et nous peuple l'esprit, o ̮l'image et le modl̈e se fondent en paradigme. A ne pas manquer. [SDM]."
  • "La 4e de couverture indique : En ce début de treizième millénaire, l'Empire n'a jamais été aussi puissant, aussi étendu à travers toute la galaxie. C'est clans sa capitale, Trantor, que l'éminent savant Hari Seldon invente la psychohistoire, une science nouvelle permettant de prédire l'avenir. Grâce à elle, Seldon prévoit l'effondrement de l'Empire d'ici trois siècles, suivi d'une ère de ténèbres de trente mille ans. Réduire cette période à mille ans est peut-être possible, à condition de mener à terme son projet : la Fondation, chargée de rassembler toutes les connaissances humaines. Une entreprise visionnaire qui rencontre de nombreux et puissants détracteurs..."
  • "Les prévisions du psychohistorien Hari Seldon sont formelles : l'empire galactique va s'effondrer. Pour réduire au minimum la période de barbarie qui va fatalement s'abattre sur la civilisation, il met au point un plan ingénieux et crée la Fondation, une planète destinée à recueillir les savoir-faire techniques de l'humanité."
  • "A band of psychologists plant a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire."
  • "La 4e de couverture indique :"The time is a future century, in the days of the Julactic Empire - a society of a 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 thoughsands of years of anarchy, unless they can create a new force - the Foundation - dedicated to art, science and technology - the nucleus new empire...""
  • "Hari Seldon, een van de psychohistorici die het uiteenvallen van het grote Galactisch Imperium heeft voorzien, krijgt het voor elkaar dat er aan de rand van het heelal twee gemeenschappen (Foundations) worden gesticht."
  • "Abridged."
  • "For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To More ... preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed."
  • "Book one of the Foundation Series."@en
  • "One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare--that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves, or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction."@en
  • "Translation of Asimov's "Foundation". Introduces the work of psycho-historian Harry Seldon in this first title of the Foundation series."
  • "Foundation--Foundation and empire-Second foundation."@en
  • ""Long after Earth was forgotten, a peaceful and unified galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the majestic city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, and grew, for countless generations. Everyone believed it would work forever. Everyone except Hari Seldon. As the great scientific thinker of his age, Seldon could not be ignored. Reluctantly, the Commission of Public Safety agreed to finance the Seldon Plan. The coming disasterwas predicted by Seldon's advances in psychohistory, the mathematics of very large human numbers, and it could not be averted. The Empire was doomed. Soon Trantor would lie in ruins. Chaos would overtake humanity. But the Seldon Plan was a longer-term strategy to minimize the worst of what was to come"--Page 2 of cover."
  • "Schildering van een wereld waarin de mens het gehele Melkwegstelsel beheerst en de ondergang van een gigantisch imperium meemaakt."
  • "As the Galactic Empire declines, psychohistorian Hari Seldon and his band of psychobiologists form the Foundation, designed to be the nucleus of an eventual ideal universal ruling corporation."@en
  • "As the Galactic Empire declines, psychohistorian Hari Seldon and his band of psychobiologists form the Foundation, designed to be the nucleus of an eventual ideal universal ruling corporation."
  • "For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind''s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.- read less."@en
  • "To preserve knowledge from the barbaric future he sees coming, Hari Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire onto a bleak planet on the edge of the galaxy. But when the Foundation is threatened by corrupt warlords, they must either submit and be overrun, or fight and be destroyed."
  • "For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed."@en
  • "A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plants a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind."
  • "A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plants a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind."@en
  • "One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind₂s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction."
  • "When the Galactic Empire sinks into barbarism, Hari Seldon and his followers begin a new colony called the Foundation. Using the principles of psychohistory, the men establish the start of the Second Empire."@en
  • "Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn't look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It's science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field. --Brooks Peck."@en

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  • "Powieść fantastyczna amerykańska"@pl
  • "Science-fiction"
  • "Roman américain"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Short stories"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Science fiction, American"@en
  • "Science fiction, American"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Littérature fantastique américaine"
  • "Translations"
  • "Science fiction novels"
  • "Epic fiction"@en
  • "Epic fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Short stories, American"@en
  • "Short stories, American"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@da
  • "Fantastic fiction"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Fantastyka naukowa amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fantastyka naukowa amerykańska"
  • "Vědecko-fantastické romány"

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  • "Fondation roman"
  • "Fundacion!"
  • "Säätiö"
  • "Säätiö"@fi
  • "The Foundation trilogy"@en
  • "Foundation"
  • "Foundation"@en
  • "The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation"@en
  • "The foundation trilogy, three classics of science fiction"@en
  • "¡Fundación! : (Era espacial)"@es
  • "Ji di"
  • "Fondation : ["Foundation".] Traduction de Jean Rosenthal"
  • "Ji di = Foundation"
  • "The foundation trilogy : three classics of science fiction"
  • "The foundation trilogy : three classics of science fiction"@en
  • "The Foundation Trilogy : Three Classics of Science Fiction"
  • "המוסד השמימי"
  • "Fondation : roman"
  • "Fundacioń"
  • "Fondation"
  • "FONDATION"
  • "Nadace"
  • "Fundacion et Imperio"
  • "The Foundation trilogy : tree classics of science fiction"
  • "Themelio"
  • "The 1,000 year plan : Original title: Foundation"@en
  • "Fondation et empire. Seconde fondation : [Foundation. Foundation and empire. Second foundation.] Isaac Asimov. [Traduit de l'anglais par Jean Rosenthal et Pierre Billon. Introduction de Sam Moskowitz]"
  • "Fundación : [Traducción: Pilar Giralt]"
  • "The Foundation trilogy : three science fiction classics"
  • "The Foundation novels"@en
  • "İmparatorluk = Foundation"
  • "De Foundation : psychohistorie"
  • "The Foundation trilogy ... Foundation, Foundation and empire, Second foundation"@en
  • "Fundación"@es
  • "Fundación"
  • "Fundación"@ca
  • "ha-Mosad ha-shememi"
  • "De Foundation"
  • "The Foundation trilogy : three classics of science fiction"@en
  • "The Foundation trilogy : three classics of science fiction"
  • "Fundacioń = Foundation"
  • "The foundation trilogy : 3 classics of science fiction"
  • "Stiftelsetrilogin"@sv
  • "Stiftelsetrilogin"
  • "Le cycle de fondation. [I], fondation"
  • "Zadužbina"
  • "The foundation trilogy three classics of science fiction"@en
  • "Foundation, Isaac Asimov"
  • "Nadace : první díl nejslavnějšího seriálu klasika science fiction v dějinách tohoto žánru"
  • "The foundation trilogy"@en
  • "¡Fundación! : era espacial"
  • "The 1,000 year plan"@en
  • "Fundacja"@pl
  • "Fundacja"
  • "Foundation [series]"@en
  • "La Fundació"@ca
  • "Stiftelsen och tiden"@sv
  • "Foundation : Isaac Asimov"@en
  • "Foundation. [A novel.]"@en
  • "The foundation trilogy; three classics of science fiction: Foundation, Foundation and empire, Second foundation"@en
  • "La fundació"
  • "基地"
  • "İmparatorluk"
  • "Stiftelsen"@sv
  • "Stiftelsen"
  • "Stiftelsen"@da
  • "Fundacion"
  • "Fundacion"@es
  • "Fundacion"@en

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