Isaac Asimov’s Foundation is the most influential
science-fiction epic of all time.
Published as a series of books and short stories from the 1940s to the 1980s,
the series has impacted most subsequent science fiction, and influenced
sciences like sociology, statistics, and psychology. The story has now been
made into a highly acclaimed TV serial (Foundation), on Apple TV, the
second season now shooting in Prague.
The story begins 45,000 years in the
future, and spans centuries in which a vast and successful interstellar human
empire is unknowingly headed for total collapse. Using an advanced mathematical
technique called psycho-history, a brilliant scientist, Hari Seldon, predicts
the collapse and establishes a “foundation” to bring about the resurrection of
human civiliz
