Second Foundation

In the Foundation series, Isaac Asimov chronicles the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity’s light through the Dark Ages of a thirty-thousand-year-long galaxy-wide Dark Age caused by the Mule, who has mutant mind power. 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 about her brother, Loris. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, her father searches for her and encounters Dr. Seldon's granddaughter Wanda, whose knowledge may be able to save them all.