
The executive council of the Second Foundation is aware of The Mule's intent and, in the words of the First Speaker, allows him to find it-"in a sense". Part I is about the Mule's search for the elusive Second Foundation, with the intent of destroying it. It would not be described in detail until Foundation's Edge.

The organization's existence (and nothing more) had been revealed in Foundation it is searched for in Foundation and Empire, and it makes brief appearances in this novel. The term also describes the organization by that name which is the focus of the book. The Foundation series is often regarded as one of Isaac Asimov's best works, along with his Robot series. Later writers have added authorized tales to the series. Decades later, Asimov wrote two further sequel novels and two prequels. Second Foundation consists of two previously published novellas originally published in Astounding Magazine (with different titles) between 19, making this the third volume in Asimov's Foundation series. It was first published in 1953 by Gnome Press. 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.Second Foundation is the third novel published of the Foundation Series by American writer Isaac Asimov, and the fifth in the in-universe chronology.

Clarke), is best known for his Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation series. 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. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building. 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. 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.

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. It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series. Book Synopsis Isaac Asimovs seminal Foundation trilogy-one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction-in a single hardcover volume.
