![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Desperate to avoid this horrific future yet unable to stop the momentum of the collapsing empire, he resigns instead to working to shorten the fall, establishing the Foundation to continue the work after his death. And the future Seldon has seen is a bleak one, with the fall of the empire destined to trigger a new 30,000-year dark age. By using mathematical and statistical principles that predict the behavior of large populations, psychohistory can peer beyond the veil and study the future of humanity. Set far into humanity's future, the series takes place in the dying days of a great galactic empire, where mathematician Hari Seldon has developed a new discipline called psychohistory. Asimov's “Foundation” started in 1942 as a series of interconnected short stories that were eventually compiled into books, with two novel-length sequels, a novel-length prequel and several prequel short stories released later. ![]()
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