Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Penguin Random House
Hardback
*BLAIR’S PICK!*
So this was my first sci-fi and I haven’t looked back (at other genres) since. This changed my whole world. This is one of those stories that makes you wonder how a human could hold all of it in their head. In the millions of galaxies that exist a man named Hari Seldon has predicted the future and it’s HOW he predicts, not what, that is so fascinating to me. Imagine combining all the disciplines into one and all the knowledge that would give; imagine trying to deliver that message over the span of centuries---and does the very act of disseminating information change the future or does it cause what was always meant to be? (AKA Blair's favorite book of all time. Okay top 10.)
Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy—one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcover volume.
It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.
In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building.
Penguin Random House
Hardback
*BLAIR’S PICK!*
So this was my first sci-fi and I haven’t looked back (at other genres) since. This changed my whole world. This is one of those stories that makes you wonder how a human could hold all of it in their head. In the millions of galaxies that exist a man named Hari Seldon has predicted the future and it’s HOW he predicts, not what, that is so fascinating to me. Imagine combining all the disciplines into one and all the knowledge that would give; imagine trying to deliver that message over the span of centuries---and does the very act of disseminating information change the future or does it cause what was always meant to be? (AKA Blair's favorite book of all time. Okay top 10.)
Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy—one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcover volume.
It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.
In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building.
Penguin Random House
Hardback
*BLAIR’S PICK!*
So this was my first sci-fi and I haven’t looked back (at other genres) since. This changed my whole world. This is one of those stories that makes you wonder how a human could hold all of it in their head. In the millions of galaxies that exist a man named Hari Seldon has predicted the future and it’s HOW he predicts, not what, that is so fascinating to me. Imagine combining all the disciplines into one and all the knowledge that would give; imagine trying to deliver that message over the span of centuries---and does the very act of disseminating information change the future or does it cause what was always meant to be? (AKA Blair's favorite book of all time. Okay top 10.)
Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy—one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcover volume.
It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.
In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building.