The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today. The Galactic Empire has prospered for twelve thousand years. Nobody suspects that the heart of the thriving Empire is rotten, until psychohistorian Hari Seldon uses his new science to foresee its terrible fate. Exiled to the desolate planet Terminus, Seldon establishes a colony of the greatest minds in the Empire, a Foundation which holds the key to changing the fate of the galaxy. However, the death throes of the Empire breed hostile new enemies, and the young Foundation's fate will be threatened first
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.