The Foundation Trilogy - Foundation (The Foundation Trilogy, Book 1): TV tie-in edition

By Isaac Asimov

The greatest science fiction adventure of all time

Now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+

The Galactic Empire has prospered for twelve thousand years. Nobody suspects that the heart of the thriving Empire is rotting, until psychohistorian Hari Seldon uses his new science to foresee its terrible fate.

Exiled to the desolate planet Terminus, Seldon establishes a colony of the greatest minds in the Empire, a Foundation which holds the key to changing the fate of the galaxy.

However, the death throes of the Empire breed hostile new enemies, and the young Foundation’s fate will be threatened first.

The FOUNDATION series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece, testament to an extraordinary imagination that shaped science fiction as we know it today.

Format: Paperback
Release Date: 16 Sep 2021
Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-0-00-852003-8
Price: £8.99 (Export Price) , £8.99
Detailed Edition: TV tie-in edition
Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Russia and was brought to the USA by his parents three years later. He grew up in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University. After a short spell in the army, he gained a doctorate and worked in academia and chemical research.Asimov’s career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the short story ‘Marooned Off Vesta’. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day. Asimov wrote hundreds of short stories and novels, including the iconic I, Robot and Foundation. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once.Apart from his world-famous science fiction, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, and textbooks, as well as two volumes of autobiography.Asimov died in 1992 at the age of 72.

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