Science fiction Classics 1951

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand…

Open Library
Add this book to your own stack

What it is

Full of big ideas · it changes how you see things

Reading sheet

How it's told

Who tells it
A narrator who knows it all
Its world
An invented world
Pulls you in with
The plot

Before you pick it up

Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you like a book that makes you think
  • you want something big, with room to breathe
  • you like to close a book feeling better

Maybe not if…

  • you like to keep your feet on the ground

Other stacks with this book

2 readers stacked it

10 books
Cover of The End of Eternity Cover of 2001 Cover of 1984 Cover of The Sirens of Titan Cover of Solaris

Understanding Science Fiction

1 58
Hand-picked
8 books
Cover of The Count of Monte Cristo Cover of The Final Empire Cover of The lies of Locke Lamora Cover of 11/22/63 Cover of Foundation

Protagonists playing the long game

34
Open Vote