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	The Foundation Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The premise of the series is that Hari Seldon has spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept devised by Asimov and his editor John W. Campbell.
		The series started as a series of nine short stories, eight of which were published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine (between May 1942 and January 1950) and a ninth, which was written a few years later to serve as an introduction when the series was first published in book form.
		The Isaac Asimov WikiCity for the Foundation Universe
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Foundation_Series (2502 words)

	The Foundation Series
		Originally written in the 1950’s for serial publication, the Foundation Trilogy (and the additional four books written in the series) is often hailed as Asimov’s greatest achievement.
		Then Seldon’s Foundation is established on Terminus, a remote planet at the edge of the Empire, with the goal of shortening the period of barbarism the universe will experience.
		In the second half of the novel, the leaders of the Foundation are also shown to be pondering the existence of a Second Foundation.
	www.futurefiction.com /the_foundation_series.htm (1104 words)

	The Foundation Series - Kaedrin's Guide to Isaac Asimov
		Foundation: The first in the original trilogy, it is actually a collection of 4 short stories originally written between 1942 and 1944, with an introductory section from 1949.
		Foundation and Empire: The second in the original trilogy, it is made up of 2 stories originally published in 1945.
		Foundation's Edge: The fifth foundation novel moves ahead and begins to question the efficiency of the Foundation.
	kaedrin.com /fun/asimov/afound.html (405 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Foundation (The Foundation Series): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Foundation is the story of one man's attempt to positively influence human history beyond the grave for centuries to come.
		Foundation was certainly part of this era, defining two major ideas: that the entire galaxy would be populated by humans (no aliens around - an early look at the idea that we might just be unique), and that mass human behavior can be codified in mathematical algorithms and to a certain extent is predictable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0586010807 (2631 words)

	Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
		In 'Foundation', the early golden days of the Foundation are told, of how the society managed to gain survival and ultimately pre-eminence in it's local sector, not through violence, but through cunning.
		Second Foundation possibly wins the 'Greatest number of end-plot twists' award, during the phase in which the Foundation is searching for the Second Foundation.
		Forward the Foundation is much graver book than any of the others in this series, and charts the fortunes of Hari Seldon, as he tries to develop his psychohistory theory before the fall of the Galactic Empire.
	vavatch.co.uk /books/asimov (1360 words)

	The Foundation Series: Book Review
		The Seldon Plan, as it becomes known, has a series of built-in crises where a particular decision is critical if order is to be restored within the short 10-century period.
		There is a "Second" Foundation "at the other end of the galaxy" that continues the development of psychohistory.
		Its existence is kept secret from the (first) Foundation for fear that the egos of the Foundation leaders would be jealous of any rivals.
	www.humanistsofutah.org /1996/artaug96.htm (567 words)

	Alter Ego's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He calls this plan of his, the Foundation (the foundation on which the new empire will be built), but he mustn't tell the people who will live on to carry out his plans exactly what they are.
		Foundation, however, takes place over a period of a couple of hundred years in which we see the leaders of the Foundation blindly attempting to follow the path left to them by the original Psychohistorians.
		Meaning that the occurences that take place in his early Robot and Empire novels lead to the events that happen in the Foundation series, although Asimov wrote them all out of order (Prelude was written almost 40 years after the first of the Foundation series).
	www.alteregos.us /archives/00000272.htm (434 words)

	The Foundation Series at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are novels by various authors (Isaac Asimov's Robot City series, Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens series, and Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time series) loosely connected to the Robot Series, but they contain many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, and are not generally considered part of the Foundation Series.
		George Lucas used elements of the Foundation series to construct the universe in which Star Wars is set, including propulsion by hyperdrive and the Galactic Empire (although Lucas' Empire was by definition evil, while Seldon openly says that in principle the First Empire isn't evil).
		It has been speculated (most prominently in the science fiction 'zines Ansible 172, (November 2001) and Locus) that the Foundation trilogy, which has had considerable success in the Middle East, was the source of the name of the terrorist group Al-Qaida.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /The_Foundation_Series.html (1739 words)

	Foundation Series Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Asimov considers that there are 15 works in the Foundation series, 14 numbered in the Author's note to 'Prelude to Foundation', plus 'Forward the Foundation', which he would no doubt have numbered at number ten.
		The "second Foundation trilogy", written after the death of Asimov, but with the blessing of the estate, by Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and David Brin, should certainly be included into the series.
		Although written after 'Prelude to Foundation', he could have mentioned in the Author's note that it was supposed to be part of the series.
	users.skynet.be /hermandw/sf/foundser.html (874 words)

	Amazon.com: Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback)): Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Asimov's `Foundation' is a story about a society of colonized scientists that have been chosen by Hari Seldon, the creator of psychohistory, who sees a crisis developing in the cosmic empire that can only be avoided if certain conditions are met for each impending emergency that is predicted through psychohistorical analysis.
		Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" was not conceived as the beginning of series of novels.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553293354?v=glance (2853 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Foundation (Foundation Series #1) - Isaac Asimov - Mass Market Paperback
		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.
		Foundation is not about coherency, it is an interesting story that documents a galactic history.
		Some have proclaimed that the Foundation series is one of the best sci-fi epics of all time...but in all honesty, it read more like a script to a movie rather than a 'cornerstone in science fiction history'.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0553293354 (848 words)

	Amazon.ca: Forward the Foundation: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In his seventh and final Foundation novel, completed shortly before his death, Asimov explores the life and times of the farseeing professor whose life's work produced a legacy of hope and faith in human survival.
		Forward the Foundation is the second book in the Foundation series, but the last book to be written by Asimov.
		I like the Foundation series due to the problems that the characters face and the clever and seemingly easy ways in which the Foundation avoids destruction.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553565079 (1196 words)

	4Literature \|\| Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation Series
		Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation series (so called because it's the union of what was originally three separate storylines into a single fictional universe) is the story of the rise of man from the present day onward.
		The rigid and bureaucratic empire undergoes a decline reminiscent of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
		For a series with the girth of the Robot-Empire-Foundation series, it can be next to impossible to keep the events straight.
	www.4literature.net /story/2003/1/21/94638/5941 (5165 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Foundation and Empire (The Foundation Series): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Asimov is probably the best science fiction writer to date, and the foundation series is in my opinion his finest series of books.
		I was looking forward to a continuing series of Seldon Crises as the Foundation played out the rise of human civilization, thinking that what we had hear with what Arnold Toynbee had done with his study of ancient civilizations extended into a future that covered an entire galaxy.
		The Foundation trilogy is classic science fiction from the genre's self-proclaimed Golden Age, and even if the writing style seems dated or quaint, it remains a seminal series.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0586013555 (1135 words)

	ipedia.com: The Foundation Series Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are currently preparations being made by Twentieth Century Fox for two movies based on the first Foundation trilogy, entitled Foundation and Second Foundation.
		Additionally, Coruscant, the imperial capital planet covered completely with buildings, is a direct borrowing of Asimov's Trantor (although visually they are not exactly similar; Trantor is covered in domed cities, while Coruscant's buildings are open to the air.
		In Forward the Foundation Hari Seldon refers to a twenty thousand year old story of "a young woman that could communicate with an entire planet that circled a sun named Nemesis," an obvious reference to Nemesis.
	www.ipedia.com /the_foundation_series.html (1824 words)

	THE STORY BEHIND THE FOUNDATION by Isaac Asimov
		In it, I described how the psychohistorian Hari Seldon established a pair of Foundations at opposite ends of the Universe under such circumstances as to make sure that the forces of history would bring about the second Empire after one thousand years instead of the thirty thousand that would be required otherwise.
		I quickly wrote myself into an impasse, and the Foundation series would have died an ignominious death had I not had a conversation with Fred Pohl on November 2 (on the Brooklyn Bridge, as it happened).
		He persuaded me to write a small Foundation story, one that would serve as an introductory section to the first book (so that the first part of the Foundation series was the last written).
	pannis.com /SFDG/TheFoundationTrilogy/theStoryBehindTheFoundation.html (2811 words)

	AWCI \| About the Foundation \| Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industry 703-534-8300
		The mission of the Foundation of the Wall and Ceiling Industry is to be an active, unbiased source of information and education to support the wall and ceiling industry.
		The Foundation Research Series is a series of research papers on topics of interest to the wall and ceiling industry.
		This scholarship program is an opportunity for the Foundation of the Wall and Ceiling Industry to financially assist students who are furthering their education in disciplines related to the wall and ceiling industry.
	www.awci.org /thefoundation.shtml (343 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| War of the worlds
		He was referring to apparent similarities between the plot of Foundation and the pursuit of the organisation we have come to know, perhaps erroneously, as al-Qaida.
		On the surface, the most improbable explanation of the name is that Bin Laden was somehow inspired by a Russian-born writer who lived most of his life in the US and was once the world's most prolific sci-fi novelist (born in 1920 in Smolensk, Asimov died in New York in 1992).
		He sets up his Foundation in a remote corner of the galaxy, hoping to build a new civilisation from the ruins of the old.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,779530,00.html (2916 words)

	The Mule - Isaac Asimov
		Isaac Asimov's Foundation series appeared in Astounding Science Fiction intermittently from 1942 through 1950, and for long years has been a favorite of fans.
		It embodies about a fifth of the word-length of The Foundation Trilogy, heroically lifting the series out of the Psychohistorical doldrums in the course of presenting the greatest challenge both to the Foundation and to Psychohistory.
		For sheer storytelling, "The Mule" is the centerpiece of the Foundation series: the arrival of the Mule is like a skyrocket among the statistical sheep.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Asimov/Mule.html (609 words)

	What order should I read the Foundation books in? - sffworld.com
		Heck it is years since I read these, but I think is is Foundation, Foundation and Empire then, the Second Foundation, they, if memory serves me correctly are the first three.....
		So technically, you should read those before the Foundation proper as they were set in the time of the empire whose decline the Foundation describes.
		If my opinion isn't eccentric you're in for a treat Stor-all, a series that gets better as it goes on, rather than worse which seems to be more common with SF series.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4025 (732 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Prelude to Foundation at Epinions.com
		Prelude to Foundation was written after, but in terms of the Foundation series’ own chronology set before the rest of the series.
		There are plenty of action set pieces and psychological battles in Prelude to Foundation, but while it’s always good, it fails to reach the heights of excellence.
		Prequels are always tricky beasts and this is no exception – another problem is that, unlike any of the other books in the Foundation series, it remains on a single planet – somehow that just feels slightly claustrophobic after you’ve read the other books.
	www.epinions.com /content_217041505924 (495 words)

	Mathematics Foundation Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mathematics Foundation Series is a comprehensive mathematics study tool for middle-school students.
		The Series has been especially adapted from the award-winning international mathematics educational series of Encyclopædia Britannica, a focussed learning tool with the mark of excellence.
		A sound foundation to the principles, methods, and rules of mathematics is the essence of grasping the subject.
	www.britannicaindia.com /ebstore/estore/productdisplay_newtry.asp?snum=64&pid=72 (478 words)

	The Foundation Series - stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Several of the works in the Foundation Series can be further subdivided into separate stories, which I shall mention with letters.
		Also in 'Foundation and Chaos', the planet Eos is introduced as the 'home base' for robots, and it is said that Daneel established the planet 10000 years before (=GE 2000), "far from the boundaries of the expanding empire".
		In "Foundation and Chaos", Daneel states the number 20000 years a few times, and even Plussix says he was constructed by Amadiro of Aurora, twenty thousand years ago.
	users.skynet.be /hermandw/sf/storlist.html (4136 words)

	Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
		The trilogy will be consolidated into two scripts, Foundation and Second Foundation, with much of the first book's events summarized as backstory, Vintar said in an interview.
		Vintar added that the studio, 20th Century Fox, encouraged him to focus on the latter half of the trilogy's timeframe.
		Jim Carrey, in England to promote Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, had to evacuate his hotel on Dec. 16 because of a fire, wire services reported.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-06/01/12.00.film (292 words)

	Forward the Foundation (Foundation Series #7) - PowerBookSearch!
		Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for.
		YA-This prequel to the "Foundation" series chronicles the life of Hari Sheldon as he struggles with his developing science of psychohistory in order to secure humanity's survival.
		Isaac Asimov began his Foundation Series at the age of twenty-one, not realizing that it would one day be considered a cornerstone of science fiction.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0553565079.html (3161 words)

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