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An unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long. After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins--destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time--but now he is certain he knows where it lies. The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed . . . before it destroys them.
- Format: MassMarketPaperback
- Author: Asimov, Isaac
- ISBN: 9780553293364
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 6.70 x 0.80
- Number Of Pages: 272
- Publication Year: 1991
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Foundation faces its greatest challenge.
Matthew K. - 4 years 4 months agoThe conclusion of the original Foundation trilogy, "Second Foundation" presents the growing galactic power with its greatest threat; the eponymous "Second Foundation," a sort of mirror-image Foundation based not upon the principles of Material Science, but instead upon Social Science. Where Foundation came to galactic prominence largely through its mastery of the physical, the inhabitants of Second Foundation are masters of the mental, whose discovery throws the self-assuredness of Foundation into utter disarray. Once again, Asimov takes the primary concept of his series - psychohistory, a mathematic approach to human history upon which Foundation has based its entire governance - and deconstructs it, revealing the flaws in the theory and forcing the reader to question fundamental precepts of the work. While a very strong entry into an excellent series, Second Foundation does suffer a little in its narrative, which becomes more and more complex as the mental manipulations of the Second Foundation come into light. Still, this work is completely essential for any sci-fi fan, as well as anyone who read and enjoyed the earlier entries into this classic series.
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