Book Preview Foundation Series 25: Foundation To the memory of Judy-Lynn del Rey a giant in mind and spirit Foundation Series 25: Foundation and Earth Isaac Asimov The Story Behind the Foundation ON August 1, 1941, when I was a lad of twenty-one, I was a graduate student in chemistry at Columbia University and had … Read more
Book Preview THE FIRST GALACTIC EMPIRE WAS FALLING. IT HAD BEEN DECAYING and breaking down for centuries and only one man fully realized that fact. He was Hari Seldom the last great scientist of the First Empire, and it was he who perfected psychohistory-the science of human behavior reduced to mathematical equations. The individual human … Read more
Book Preview Little is known about the final days of Hari Seldon, though many romanticized accounts exist, some of them purportedly by his own hand. None has any proved validity. What appears evident, however, is that Seldon spent his last months uneventfully, no doubt enjoying satisfaction in his life’s work. For with his gift of … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 22: Foundation THE SECOND FOUNDATION TRILOGY This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 21: Foundation’s THE SECOND FOUNDATION TRILOGY To Greg Bear and David Brin fellow voyagers on strange seas Foundation Series 21: Foundation’s Fear Gregory Benford THE SECOND FOUNDATION TRILOGY R. Daneel Olivaw did not look like Eto Demerzel. That role he had already cast aside. This Dors Vanabili expected, though it was … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 20: Second Foundation Series 20: Second Foundation Isaac Asimov Prologue The First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years. It had included all the planets of the Galaxy in a centralized rule, sometimes tyrannical, sometimes benevolent, always orderly. Human beings had forgotten that any other form of existence … Read more
Book Preview It was a colossal Empire, stretching across millions of worlds from arm-end to arm-end of the mighty multi-spiral that was the Milky Way. Its fall was colossal, too – and a long one, for it had a long way to go. It had been falling for centuries before one man became really aware … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 18: Foundation THE STORY BEHIND THE “FOUNDATION” The date was August 1, 1941. World War II had been raging for two years. France had fallen, the Battle of Britain had been fought, and the Soviet Union had just been invaded by Nazi Germany. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was four months … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 17: Forward the Copyright © 1993 For nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his internationally bestselling Foundation Series, a spell-binding tale of the future that spans hundreds of years and dozens of worlds. Here, now, is Forward the Foundation, the seventh and final volume in the series. … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 16: Prelude to When I wrote “Foundation, ” which appeared in the May 1942 issue of Astounding Science Faction, I had no idea that I had begun a series of stories that would eventually grow into six volumes and a total of 650, 000 words (so far). Nor did I have … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 15: Pebble in the Isaac Asimov, world maestro of science fiction, was born in Russia near Smolensk in 1920 and brought to the United States by his parents three years later. He grew up in Brooklyn where he went to grammar school and at the age of eight he gained his … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 14: The Currents DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. Garden City, New York COPYRIGHT, 1952, BY ISAAC ASrrsOv COPYRIGHT, 1952, BY STREET & SMITH PRINTED IN TEE UNTIED STATES OF ALL OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK AND ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL PERSONS, LIVING OR DEAD, IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL. Foundation Series 14: The … Read more
Book Preview The bedroom murmured to itself gently. It was almost below the limits of hearing – an irregular little sound, yet quite unmistakable, and quite deadly. But it wasn’t that which awakened Biron Farrill and dragged him out of a heavy, unrefreshing slumber. He turned his head restlessly from side to side in a … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 12: Isaac A Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Book “Isaac Asimov’s Caliban” is a trademark of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. This book is an Ace original edition, and has never been previously published. An Ace Book / published by arrangement with Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Ace trade paperback edition … Read more
Book Preview A Robot Must Protect Its Own Existence, As Long As Such Protection Does Not Conflict with the First Law. A Robot May Do Anything It Likes, Except Where Such Action Would Violate the First, Second, or Third Laws. THE NEW LAWS OF ROBOTICS. I. II THE SPACER-SETTLER STRUGGLE was at its beginning, and … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 10: Isaac To five wondrous creatures, named in the order of their appearance on this planet: Aaron Victoria Benton Jonathan And Meredith Acknowledgments This book would not have been possible without the support, and especially the patience, of David Harris, John Betancourt, Byron Preiss, Susan Allison, Ginjer Buchanan, and Peter Heck. … Read more
Book Preview Gladia felt the lawn lounge to make sure it wasn’t too damp and then sat down. A touch at the control adjusted it in such a way as to allow her to be semirecumbent and another activated the diamagnetic field and gave her, as it always did, the sensation of utter relaxation. And … Read more
Book Preview Foundation Series 8: The Robots of Copyright © 1983 by Nightfall, Inc. Dedicated to Marvin Minsky and Joseph F. Engelberger, who epitomize (respectively) the theory and practice of robotics 1 Foundation Series 8: The Robots of Dawn Isaac Asimov 1 Elijah Baley found himself in the shade of the tree and muttered to … Read more