The galactic empire feels boundless and is seemingly incapable of failure. Humanity has advanced to the point of easy space travel, force fields, energy blasters, and all the rest such a level of technology entails. Marking the beginning of the Foundation series, the first novel sets the stage for the great struggle to come in the future.
Nevertheless, this is exactly what our civilization is facing in Isaac Asimov‘s timeless pioneering novel of hard science-fiction, titled Foundation. For all the forward momentum humanity is gaining with its ever more wondrous scientific discoveries, it’s difficult (but mind you, not impossible) to imagine a scenario where we collectively start to move in the opposite direction.
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