Isaac Asimov starts his seven-volume "Foundation" series at the decline of the Galactic Empire, which has reigned for 12,000 years. As the empire falls, Hari Seldon, the inventor of a new science known as psychohistory, can see a future of ignorance and warfare that will last 30,000 years.
To save the world's intelligence, Seldon forms what he calls "the Foundation," on a planet at the far edge of the galaxy. The empire's best scientists and scholars congregate in the Foundation, but corrupt warlords also rise up in the power vacuum.
The Foundation novels deal with the evolution of civilization and societies.
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