Prelude to Foundation

The Foundation Trilogy is a science fiction masterpiece by Isaac Asimov, beginning with the year 12,020 G. E. , in which Emperor Cleon I sits on the throne of Trantor. Here, in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet, there are those who would see him fall: his enemies, whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory—his brilliant theory of prediction—little knowing that he will seal his fate and that of humanity itself. ”