"For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, 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...

"This series narrates the fall of a great galactic empire and the efforts of the Foundations to combat the barbarism that follows." "Hari Seldon possess the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire, Foundation."

Interplanetary intrigue, hyperspace pursuit, and future technology combine with a desperate search for the planet Earth.

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered...

In a continuation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Hari Seldon has been thrust into the First Ministership of the Empire against his will and seeks to develop the science that will transform history.