Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are masterful science fiction epics, original and influential. Asimov chronicles the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior planets. Yet now it must face the Empire—still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, only one hope for survival remains for this small planet of scholars and scientists—the legendary Second Foundation.