Foundation / Isaac Asimov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992.

Contributor:

Youll, Stephen, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Mindell, Arnold, 1940- Foundation series ; 1.

The Foundation series ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Seldon, Hari.

Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character).

Historians--Fiction.

Historians.

Prophecy.

Prophecy--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

296 pages ; 18 cm.

Edition:

Bantam edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bantam Books, [1996]

Summary:

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 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. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.

Contents:

pt. 1. Psychohistorians

pt. 2. Encyclopedists

pt. 3. Mayors

pt. 4. Traders

pt. 5. Merchant princes.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1951.

Ninth printing.

"A Bantam Spectra book"--Title page verso.

Cover art by Stephen Youll.

Imprint date from Internet Speculative fiction database.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

ISBN:

0553293354

OCLC:

956556851