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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. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--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 edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves, or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.… (més)
JonTheTerrible: The pace of these books are similar as well as the topics they cover: society and government. The science plays only a small role in both books but is present enough to successfully build the worlds in which the characters inhabit.
karnoefel: de eerste drie foundation boeken in een robuuste hardcoverband. Dit boek was een van de eerste sf boeken die ik las in de jaren 70 in de bibliotheek van Tegelen
br77rino: Pebble in the Sky is the first book Asimov wrote regarding the Galactic Empire, a subject he used in his later masterpiece trilogy, Foundation.
La novel·la narra el començament de la decadència del Imperi Galàctic, i com un psicohistoriador, Hari Seldon, capaç de preveure amb la seua ciència els esdeveniments futurs, idea la creació d'una "Fundació" en el planeta Tèrminus, a l'extrem de la Galàxia, amb el projecte d'acurtar el periode de decadència de l'Imperi. El llibre es divideix en cinc parts, que narren cinc etapes diferents de la història galàctica. I. Els psicohistoriadors II. Els enciclopedistes III. Els alcaldes IV. Els comerciants V. Els prínceps comerciants ( )
HARI SELDON - …Nascut l'any 11.988 de l'era Galàctica, mort l'any 12.069.
Citacions
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès.Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Violence is the last refuge of the competent.
He had brought down his first Nyak when scarcely thirteen; had brought down his tenth the week after his accession to the throne; and was returning now from his forty-sixth.
‘Fifty before I come of age,’ he had exulted. ‘Who’ll take the wager?’
But courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
Darreres paraules
KORELL - ... I així, després de tres anys d'una guerra, que sens dubte va ser la guerra en la qual es van lliurar menys batalles que es recordi, la República de Korell es va rendir incondicionalment, i Hober Mallow va tenir un lloc al costat de Hari Seldon i de Salvor Hardin als cors de la gent de la Fundació.
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. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--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 edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves, or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.
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***Group Read: Asimov's Foundation Series
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El llibre es divideix en cinc parts, que narren cinc etapes diferents de la història galàctica.
I. Els psicohistoriadors
II. Els enciclopedistes
III. Els alcaldes
IV. Els comerciants
V. Els prínceps comerciants (