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It was not to be compared with the tightly controlled "Union of Worlds" under the Mule, particularly during the era of the so-called Search. The earlier commercial empire of the fallen Foundation had been diverse and loosely knit, despite the impalpable backing of the predictions of psychohistory. After the definite break-up of the first Galactic Empire, it was he who first presented history with a unified volume of space truly imperial in scope. THE MULE It was after the fall of the First Foundation that the constructive aspects of the Mule's regime took shape. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed…before it destroys them. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret.

The Mule failed to find it the first time-but now he is certain he knows where it lies. 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.

As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.Īfter years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins-destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction.