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Key facts
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Cover artist
- David Kyle
- Language
- English
- Series
- Foundation series
- Genre
- Science fiction, political drama
- Publisher
- Gnome Press
- Publication date
- August 30, 1951
- Publication place
- United States
- Media type
- Print (hardback & paperback)
- Award
- Retro Hugo for Best Novelette for "Foundation", aka "The Encyclopedists" (1943, awarded 2018)
- Followed by
- Foundation and Empire
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Genre
- science fiction
- Country of origin
- United States
- Series
- Foundation series
- Followed by
- Foundation and Empire
- Follows
- Forward the Foundation
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- characters
- Hober Mallow
- cover art by
- David A. Kyle
- publication date
- 1951-00-00
- title
- Foundation
- language of work or name
- English language
- inception
- 1942-00-00
- place of publication
- New York City
- form of creative work
- fix-up
- different from
- Foundation (2)
- epigraph
- TRADERS-... With psychohistoric inevitability. economic control of the Foundation grew. The traders grew rich; and with riches came power....<br>It is sometimes forgotten that Hober Mallow began life as an ordinary trader. It is never forgotten that he ended it as the first of the Merchant Princes...
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Encyclopedic overview
Foundation is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. It is the first book in the Foundation Trilogy (which later expanded into the Foundation series). Foundation is a cycle of five interrelated short stories, first published as a single book by Gnome Press in 1951. Collectively they tell the early story of the Foundation, an institute founded by psychohistorian Hari Seldon to preserve the best of galactic civilization after his predicted collapse of the Galactic Empire.
Publication history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Foundation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.