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Fundación by Isaac Asimov
Fundación by Isaac Asimov





Fundación by Isaac Asimov

To accomplish this task, Seldon created two Foundations, refuges of science and knowledge, on opposite ends of the galaxy. Feeling 30,000 years was about 29,000 years too much, Seldon devised a plan to reduce the inevitable barbarous era to a mere 1,000 years. Using the fictional science of psychohistory, Seldon predicted the collapse of the Galactic Empire and foresaw a 30,000-year Dark Age to follow. The first novel in the series, Foundation, began with the story of Hari Seldon. Based on his reading of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Asimov imagined a collection of stories focused on the course and development of all civilization, not just the heroics of one man blasting his way across the galaxy.Ĭampbell published the stories individually in his Astounding Fiction, and they were eventually collected and published as novels. In 1941, Asimov and Campbell began outlining a new series of stories.

Fundación by Isaac Asimov Fundación by Isaac Asimov

So Isaac Asimov and his editor, one John Campbell Jr., decided they were going to change all that and refocus the genre on the science. They'd travel to distant planets, fight BEMS (that's bug-eyed monsters), and usually rescue a bikini-clad damsel in distress along the way. But you know what? It wasn't always that way.īack in what is now called the Pulp era of science fiction, the science of science fiction took a backseat to stories about manly-men having manly adventures across the manly galaxy. When you think of science fiction, you imagine it to be a genre that focuses on, well, science stuff.







Fundación by Isaac Asimov