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Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy—one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcover volume.
It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.
In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building.
It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.
In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building.
About the Author
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), one of the “Big Three” science fiction masters of his time (along with Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke), is best known for his Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation series.
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic for The Washington Post and the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure.
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic for The Washington Post and the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure.
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The Everyman's edition, a Sci-Fi classic, Nov 12 2010
By Matthew J. Mansini - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation (Hardcover)
Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Trilogy. Everyman's Library.Those three ingredients are truly all that is necessary in this review.
The contents of this volume and people's opinions concerning it are amply represented elsewhere and I will not labor unnecessarily over the Foundation trilogy. Many of us will call it a classic, some of us will not understand why others love it in quite the way that some of us do. The writing is crisp and sometimes sparse, frequently detailed, and always brimming with interesting ideas that not only make good science fiction subject matter, but are worth thinking about in our lives, our futures, and any abstract moments of free time we may have.
The introduction by Dirda is not overly long, but it does provide some interesting information and context for the author and stories. The Everyman's Library chronology is useful as ever and if you are building your own home library with Everyman's editions or have at least a few Everyman's editions kicking around you will be familiar with them. More importantly the typeface used and the layout of the text itself is, as usual, top notch. Nice even ink exposure throughout.
Finally, as with so many Everyman's editions this volume is case bound with cloth over the boards, has a half round spine, cream colored acid-free paper (that smells good), a ribbon, coordinated head and tail bands, and a sewn binding to ensure longevity.
If you are pining for the Foundation Trilogy, this is the edition to purchase it in. If you would like to read it again, this is the edition for you. If your copies lack quality, are dying an acid death due to the ravages of time, or are simply unimpressive, than this is the edition for you.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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From the Mind of Asimov, Mar 5 2011
By Patrick Curren "The no self" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation (Hardcover)
I have always admired and enjoyed reading Asimov's Robot series of books such as Caves of Steel/The Naked Sun/The Robots of Dawn series. So when I decided to read the famous Foundation Series, I looked for a hard cover version that I could read and add to my library. I have never owned a book from the Everyman's Library series and so when I found this book, I thought it was a perfect purchase/fit. I am very happy with the quality of this book for the price. The red cloth hard cover, the size (which is very easy to hold and balance with one hand), the gold bookmark ribbon (that all hard covers should have), the high quality of paper and the text size were perfect! In terms of the content, the Foundation series is everything of the greatness I have ever heard or read about. Some complain of the datedness of the references to the technology such as microfilm but in my opinion that is one of the aspects that make this book so interesting. Yet while Asimov's technology may at times appear to be dated, his comprehensive look at psychology may be timeless (IE the Second Foundation). To think that such a great story was written in the early 1950's to me is incredible! These books are compiled as separate stories over a time period of 400 years. Asimov's inspiration for the Foundation series was based on the history associated with the rise of fall of the Roman Empire. The great Hari Seldon put forth a plan to shorten the dark ages associated with the fall of the civilized galactic empire. Thus it was inevitable that the empire would fall but Seldon puts forth a plan to shorten the galactic dark ages from 30,000 years to 1,000 years. The plan is Foundations I & II. Excellent book from the great mind of Isaac Asimov.ASIMOV!
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Still Holds Up!, July 12 2011
By littlegeorge - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation (Hardcover)
I read this back in the 1960s, and was swept away by Asimov's tale of a failing galactic empire, and the science of psycho-history. I've heard rumors that Roland Emmerich (the man responsible for the Godzilla & Independence Day movies) has a film version of this book in the works, ([....]), so I thought I'd re-visit the book before Mr. Emmerich does.After a half century, this is still a great read, although the dialog is a bit more stilted and some of the characters are more one-dimensional than I remembered. I've found that much of the science fiction that I adored as a young man has not aged well - at least, not for me - because so much of it was originally written for a pulp fiction audience. But unlike many science fiction writers, Asimov was influenced less by other producers of sf, and more by books like the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire; consequently the reader is in for a much more thought provoking ride with this book than he is with much of what passes for science fiction today.
Michael Dirda's introduction to the Everyman's Library edition explains the genesis of this story in a way that made it even more interesting. If you've never read this, be sure you do *before* you go to see Emmerich's movie.
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