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	The Foundation Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, the Foundation slides gradually into oligarchy and dictatorship prior to the appearance of the Mule, but, for the most part, the book treats that change as being necessary in Hari Seldon's plan, rather than mulling over whether it is on the whole positive or negative.
		George Lucas used elements of the Foundation series to construct the universe in which Star Wars is set, including propulsion by hyper-drive, lightsabers (evolved from force field penknives), and the Galactic Empire (although Lucas' Empire was by definition evil, while Seldon openly says that in principle the First Empire is not evil).
		This speculation, however, fails to account for the fact that the term Al-Qaida, Arabic for "The Foundation", was first used by the United States to describe followers of Osama bin Laden and is not used by that group to refer to itself.
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	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.
		Foundation's Edge is a fair book, but it doesn't contain any of the originality or strength of the original trilogy.
		Prelude to Foundation is set before the first Foundation book, and features the exploits of Hari Seldon, as he is chased across the capital of the Galactic Empire, Trantor, by nasty individuals who want him for his theory of psychohistory.
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	Novels: Isaac Asimov: The Foundation Trilogy (1951-53) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Asimov's trilogy, consisting of Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953), is a famous classic for several reasons.
		Seldon and his followers start the Foundation, a brotherhood whose aim it is to preserve the theory as well as ensure that man's technological knowledge is not forgotten during the inescapable dark interrim.
		The main crisis for the Foundation is the appearence of a freak of nature, a man with hitherto unseen psychokinetic powers.
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	Bookslut - 100 Books Project - The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
		Although there are now several Foundation novels, the original trilogy, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation, was written thirty years before pressure from fans and his publisher forced Asimov to return to the series.
		This may be the least satisfying out of all the Foundation stories, as its resolution depends not at all on the genius or cunning of any one person.
		In the second story, the Foundation is menaced by a mutant, the Mule, something unforeseeable by the Seldon plan, which predicts that the Foundation will eventually rule over the entire galaxy.
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	The Templeton Gate - Authors - Asimov's Foundation Trilogy
		Even though I still enjoy the earlier segments of the trilogy, I think his improvement is quite noticeable in the second section of the second book, known individually as "The Mule," which was awarded a Retro-Hugo in 1996.
		The purpose of the foundation would be to maintain the vast store of knowledge compiled by humanity, and to produce an Encyclopedia Galactica, which would be made available to all of the libraries in the galaxy.
		He also tells them that the initial goal of the Foundation, that of compiling the Encyclopedia, was a fraud perpetrated for the sole purpose of establishing the colony on Terminus, far away from the populated Galactic center.
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	Foundation
		Each chapter is a new era in the Foundation's history, and as people come and go, its logical imperative proceeds virtually unhindered; that is, until it is destroyed in the second novel, only for the Second Foundation to triumph in the third.
		Foundation is the first of the trilogy; it is set far in the future.
		The book describes a hunt for the Second Foundation where the hunters may or may not have been controlled by the hunted, the hunted may or may not have been found by the hunters, and what seems to be independent thought and action on any of their parts may not be so.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.
		The Foundation novel is very dated, which I suppose is a function of the time it was written.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is an interesting and useful addition to the Foundation sage it does not have the pace and "keep reading" quality that marks the original Foundation series by Asimov himself.
		This is the first in a posthumous trilogy sanctioned - if not instigated - by the Asimov Estate and actually a prequel to Isaac Asimov's 'classic' Foundation trilogy, one of the landmark SF works of the mid-twentieth century.
		This detracted from, rather than added to, the Foundation trilogy, and were additional complications with which these three authors had to contend.
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	The Foundation Trilogy
		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).
		In 1952, Foundation and Empire appeared, with the fifth and sixth stories; and in 1953, Second Foundation appeared, with the seventh and eighth stories.
		The Foundation series was nominated, and I felt that was going to have to be glory enough for me, since I was sure that Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" would win.
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	Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The course of the Foundation's growth was plotted according to the science of psychohistory -- conditions were arranged to bring about a series of crises forcing it to move rapidly along the route to future Empire...
		In Foundation, Isaac Asimov draws a compelling portrait of the Foundation's embryonic development and rise the peripheral power -- domination of kingdoms on the outskirts of the Galaxy.
		Foundation and Empire tells the story of the period of disruption, after the Foundation has attained peripheral power -- of struggles between petty kingdoms and the Foundation's emergence as a state strong enough finally to defeat the decrepit First Empire.
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		The entire trilogy is the history of the Foundation which Seldon establishes to quicken humanity's recovery from the empire's fall.
		This 'Second Foundation' was meant to be the invisible hand guiding the destiny of mankind, just as the first has preserved humanity's culture and civilization.
		The concepts it presents are worthy of thought, and the sweeping scale of the trilogy brings a sense of the historic.
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	Foundation's Triumph - David Brin - Mobipocket eBooks
		Gregory Bear's Foundation and Chaos relates the epic tale of Seldon's downfall and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion.
		Now, in David Brin's Foundation's Triumph, Seldon is about to escape exile and risk everything for one final quest -- the outcome of which may secure humankind's future -- or witness its final downfall....
		Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.
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	The FOUNDATION Trilogy
		The basic premise of the trilogy is that a mathematician had charted the future, using the science of "psychohistory." You cannot predict what one gas molecule will do, but you can write general laws for trillions of them.
		It was colonized as a foundation, a scientific colony to write The Encyclopedia Galactica.
		There exists a "Second Foundation" placed at "the opposite end of the Galaxy." The nature of that Second Foundation says much about Asimov and his subjectivist philosophy.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Foundation Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the trilogy (and even the subsequent sequels) did not finish the 1,000-year cycle, enough was described to bring about some rather intriguing fiction.
		However, as the Empire falls and the scientists of the Foundation are isolated by the barbarism on the galactic periphery (in a series of "Seldon Crises"), it becomes much more.
		It is remarkable that he wrote the Foundation while a young man, barely 20 I believe, a work with grand themes and the cornerstone of his massive and sprawling future history of mankind, which I believe went into more than 50 volumes.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Foundation's Triumph (Second Foundation Trilogy S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Isaac Asimov's 1951-53 "Foundation" trilogy is a rough-hewn classic of far-future SF, honoured with a unique 1965 Hugo for Best All-Time Series.
		One glaring exception was his placement of the inception of the Gaia group on Eos 500 years before Foundation's Edge.
		According to Foundation's Edge (my favorite book in this series) and Foundation and Earth, Gaia was founded 12,000 years earlier by robot- accompanied refugees from Earth.
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	Review: The Foundation Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		trilogy has been hailed as a landmark and one of Asimov's major contributions to the genre.
		It is not a trilogy, actually, but a series of short stories and novellas that later happened to be collected into three novel-size volumes.
		For the purpose of this series, Asimov has invented the fictional science of psychohistory.
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	Powell's Books - Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
		Foundation's Edge: The Foundation Novels (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
		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.
		Second Foundation Trilogy #02: Foundation and Chaos: The Second Foundation Trilogy
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	Amazon.com: Books: Foundation Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This plan requires the formation of a Foundation near the edge of the galaxy.
		First of all up until I read the Foundation Trilogy back in 1986 I was not one for reading fiction, never mind Sci Fi.
		As of a result of reading the Trilogy edition I now have most of his books and as to date have not been able to find another comparable author, although Arthur C Clarke has come close with his Rama series.
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	Powell's Books - Second Foundation Trilogy #03: Foundation's Triumph by David/asimov Brin
		Second Foundation Trilogy #02: Foundation and Chaos: The Second Foundation Trilogy by Greg Bear
		Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
		With the approval of Isaac Asimov's estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have completed his unfinished epic, "The Second Foundation Trilogy".
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	Democratic Underground Forums - Foundation Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All I remember of the Foundation Trilogy was that there was a social futurist/theorist who appeared at long intervals in time (via holograms created before his death) that gave information about the current events and extrapolated their consequences out into the future.
		What I recall is that there were two foundations set up at the opposite end of the galaxy and the first foundation was the "public" foundation and the second was secret and it's business was to actually see that "the plan" stayed on course.
		It is one of the few science fiction series that deals with social scientists -- the "psychohistorians", who use their understanding of the mathematics of society to save civilization as the Galactic Empire collapses.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Foundation Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I also remember the summer that I read the entire trilogy, it was the first time that I was completely immersed in a satisfying, intelligent, alternate reality.
		Starting in a Galactic Empire that is starting to slip into decline, then on to the monastic settlement of the Foundation and it's mission to preserve the best of the old civilization, then on to the recivilization of the ruins of the old Empire.
		If I recall correctly, it takes around 1000 years, but without the foundation it would have meant 10 times more chaos and darkness.
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	Foundation's Fear (Foundation Trilogy) (Gregory Benford) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This book kicks off the Second Foundation trilogy--and makes rather a mess of things.
		The Voltaire/Jeanne d'Arc subplots are both overdone and underdone---too much focus is given to them, and the details are not interesting.
		THe next book in the series, Foundation and Chaos, is far better.
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	Isaac Asimov FAQ
		Since the Foundation's ultimate success was guaranteed by psychohistory, there was a considerable lack of dramatic tension, and it was hard keeping the stories from contradicting each other.
		The existence of the Second Foundation had been a part of the series from the beginning, as was its location at "Star's End," but its exact nature wasn't clearly defined until it acquired its role as the Mule's nemesis.
		They would simply be century upon century of the Foundation's growth and triumph under the direction of the Second Foundation, and really rather dull.
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		The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov 3 in 1 Classic
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	THE STORY BEHIND THE FOUNDATION by Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		On January 26, 1945, I began “The Mule”, my personal favorite among the Foundation stories, and the longest yet, for it was 50,000 words.
		The Foundation series was nominated, and I felt that was going to have to be glory enough for me, since I was sure that Tolkien's
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