Foundation

1951 novel by Isaac Asimov

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Author: Isaac Asimov
First published: 1951
Editions: 99
Subjects: Psychohistory, Open Library Staff Picks, Life on other planets, Fiction, Science Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Prophecy, Historians

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Author: Isaac Asimov
Cover artist: David Kyle
Language: English
Series: Foundation series
Genre: Science fiction, political drama
Publisher: Gnome Press
Publication date: August 30, 1951
Publication place: United States
Media type: Print (hardback & paperback)
Award: Retro Hugo for Best Novelette for "Foundation", aka "The Encyclopedists" (1943, awarded 2018)
Followed by: Foundation and Empire

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Biblical Stewardship I | Living According to the Will of God: The Foundation for Biblical Stewardship | Col. 1: 9-14

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publication date: 1951-00-00
title: Foundation
inception: 1942-00-00
epigraph: TRADERS-... With psychohistoric inevitability. economic control of the Foundation grew. The traders grew rich; and with riches came power....<br>It is sometimes forgotten that Hober Mallow began life as an ordinary trader. It is never forgotten that he ended it as the first of the Merchant Princes...

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Foundation is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. It is the first book in the Foundation Trilogy (which later expanded into the Foundation series). Foundation is a cycle of five interrelated short stories, first published as a single book by Gnome Press in 1951. Collectively they tell the early story of the Foundation, an institute founded by psychohistorian Hari Seldon to preserve the best of galactic civilization after his predicted collapse of the Galactic Empire.

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