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From the publisher. 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 First Foundation on Terminus and the Second Foundation on Trantor suspect each other of manipulating the restoration of Galactic to its own advantage.

An up-to-the-minute examination of the circumstances that mark the beginning and end of the lives of stars.

El hombre se ha dispersado por toda la galaxia. La capital del Imperio es Trantor, nido de intrigas y corrupcion. Gracias a su ciencia, fundada en el estudio matematico de los hechos historicos y el comportamiento de las masas, el psicohistoriador Hari Seldon preve la caida del Imperio y el retorno a la barbarie durante varios milenios. A fin de reducir este periodo de barbarie a mil anos, Seldon decide crear una Fundacion en un extremo de la galaxia....

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she ...?