Second FoundationThe third novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity’s shining past—and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. Is she the Foundation’s savior—or its deadliest enemy? Unforgettable, thought-provoking, and riveting, Second Foundation is a stunning novel of adventure and ideas writ huge across the Galaxy—a powerful tale of humankind’s struggle to preserve the fragile light of wisdom against the threat of its own dark barbarism. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Two Men Without the Mule | 22 |
Two Men and a Peasant | 35 |
Two Men and the Elders | 44 |
One Man and the Mule | 53 |
One Man the Muleand Another | 65 |
Arcadia | 83 |
Seldons Plan | 98 |
Lady | 145 |
Anxiety | 152 |
Through the Grid | 165 |
Beginning of War | 177 |
War | 189 |
Ghost of a World | 193 |
End of War | 201 |
I Know | 211 |
The Conspirators | 110 |
Approaching Crisis | 123 |
Lord | 138 |
The Answer that Satisfied | 225 |
The Answer that Was True | 236 |
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