Second Foundation

Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIESThe Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon’s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today.The First Foundation has been defeated, crushed by the formidable mental powers of the Mule. But whispers of the mysterious Second Foundation, the only hope of defeating the Mule, are beginning to spread…Surviving members of the First Foundation also fear the secret powers of the Second Foundation, vowing to find and destroy it. However, the location of the Second Foundation remains shrouded in mystery. Finding it will lead the Foundation to the opposite end of the Galaxy, where the fate of Seldon’s two Foundations awaits.

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First published in Great Britain by Digit (Brown, Watson) 1958

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Source ISBN: 9780008117511

Ebook Edition © March 2018 ISBN: 9780007384853

Version: 2018-09-20

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to Marcia, John and Stan

Contents

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Title Page (#ueb978321-04d2-5fdf-994a-b1e7897366d9)

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

Part I: Search By The Mule

Chapter 1: Two Men And The Mule

Chapter 2: Two Men Without The Mule

Chapter 3: Two Men And A Peasant

Chapter 4: Two Men And The Elders

Chapter 5: One Man And The Mule

Chapter 6: One Man, The Mule – And Another

Part II: Search By The Foundation

Chapter 7: Arcadia

Chapter 8: Seldon’s Plan

Chapter 9: The Conspirators

Chapter 10: Approaching Crisis

Chapter 11: Stowaway

Chapter 12: Lord

Chapter 13: Lady

Chapter 14: Anxiety

Chapter 15: Through The Grid

Chapter 16: Beginning Of War

Chapter 17: War

Chapter 18: Ghost Of A World

Chapter 19: End Of War

Chapter 20: ‘I Know …’

Chapter 21: The Answer That Satisfied