Isaac Asimovs Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of sciencefiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action daring ideas and extensiveworldbuildi... » 

Isaac Asimovs Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of sciencefiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action daring ideas and extensiveworldbuilding they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men andwomen dedicated to preserving humanitys light in a galaxy plunged into anightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long. After years ofstruggle the Foundation lies in ruinsdestroyed by the mutant mind power ofthe Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhereat the end of the Galaxy established to preserve the knowledge of mankindthrough the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the firsttimebut now he is certain he knows where it lies. The fate of the Foundationrests on young Arcadia Darell only fourteen years old and burdened with aterrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule thesurvivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too wantthe Second Foundation destroyed...before it destroys them. From thePaperback edition. «