Second Foundation

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Author(s):

Isaac Asimov

First Pub:

1953

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

1981

Times Read:

2 times

Rating:

Subject(s):

Life on other planets - Fiction
Psychohistory - Fiction
Psychological fiction
Science fiction
Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character) - Fiction

Chapters:

See 25

Prologue

Part I - Search by the Mule

1 - Two Men and the Mule

2 - Two Men Without the Mule

3 - Two Men and a Peasant

4 - Two Men and the Elders

5 - One Man and the Mule

6 - One Man, the Mule - and Another

Part II - Search by the Foundation

7 - Arcadia

8 - Seldon's Plan

9 - The Conspirators

10 - Approaching Crisis

11 - Stowaway

12 - Lord

13 - Lady

14 - Anxiety

15 - Through the Grid

16 - Beginning of War

17 - War

18 - Ghost of a World

19 - End of War

20 - "I Know..."

22 - The Answer That Satisfied

22 - The Answer That Was True

Internal ID:

122

Series:

<- Foundation and Empire - Foundation's Edge ->

Foundation*

#3 of 7

Foundation*

A series of science fiction books written by Isaac Asimov. They also tie in with the Robot series.

View this series in the book list

1) Foundation
2) Foundation and Empire
3) Second Foundation
4) Foundation's Edge
5) Foundation and Earth
6) Prelude to Foundation
7) Forward the Foundation

Copyright:

Dedication:

To Marcia, John, and Stan

First Sentence:

The First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Ten months earlier, the First Speaker had viewed those same crowding stars - nowhere as crowded as at the center of that huge cluster of matter Man calls the Galaxy - with misgivings; but now there was a somber satisfaction on the round and ruddy face of Preem Palver - First Speaker.

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Added: 29-Dec-2002

Last Updated: 24-May-2023

Publications

Unknown Date

Audiobook

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-1776

Format:

Audiobook

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 22 May 2023 - 24 May 2023

Internal ID:

23225

Publisher:

Unknown

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Jack Fox - Narration

From the YouTube description:

The third Foundation novel in the series. The two novellas were originally published in 1948 and 1949 but the book was printed in 1953. This is narration is of an omnibus version that has the first 3 books. This isn't my favorite narration of the novel but for consistency sake the first 3 in the Foundation series will be read by Jack Fox.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Listened to this from the YouTube version (here). This was part of an omnibus version and I cannot find any information about it outside of the YouTube video at this time.

All Covers for this edition of the series

Foundation

Foundation and Empire

Second Foundation

01-Oct-1971

Avon Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Oct-1971

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$0.95

Pages*:

191

Read:

Once

Internal ID:

2579

Publisher:

Avon Books

ISBN:

0-380-00306-6

ISBN-13:

978-0-380-00306-8

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Don Ivan Punchatz - Cover Artist

SECOND
FOUNDATION
follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat - the gowth of a dangerous mutant. This mutant strain has gone wild, producing a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and dstroying the universe. SECOND FOUNDATION completes the most famous series of novels in all of science fiction by one many critics consider our greatest science-fiction writer, ISAAC ASIMOV.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Published by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Second Foundation is based on published material originally copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. 1948, 1949.
First Printing, Avon, December, 1964
Twelfth Printing, October, 1971

Cover number: N306

Author(s)

Isaac Asimov
Birth: 02 Jan 1920 Petrovichi, Russia
Death: 06 Apr 1992 New York, USA

Notes:

Contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion during a triple bypass heart surgery.

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