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The Foundation Trilogy

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Isaac Asimov

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This book like most of Asimov's books is about far more than a compelling science fiction yarn. Its narrative follows the statistical activities begun by Harry Seldon and Gaal Dornick, and their development of "psychohistory". Psychohistory defines and predicts the de-evolution of the known and unknown universe, and all of its technologic standing and development. At this point you might want to consider that he wrote this book in 1951, when Harry Truman's brand of politics was rife in our country! Harry Seldon predicts how the fall of the Galactic Empire will take place, and how through the analytic use of psychohistory, it can be brought back from this brink of ultimate destruction.

This book, "Foundation" and the subsequent editions that follow tell an "Atlas Shrugged" sort of story that, as that book has very adeptly described, is now quite evident in our present. You will see while reading this book not only that Mr. Asimov was quite perceptive, he was describing to a tee the later developments of Chernobyl, the MIR Space Station, NASA, the Challenger incident, and a number of very curious corollaries. If you have any training or knowledge base in the use of statistics, you will find it even more interesting! For any reader though it's a fine and powerful story!