TY - BOOK AU - Asimov,Isaac AU - Asimov,Isaac AU - Asimov,Isaac AU - Asimov,Isaac AU - Asimov,Isaac AU - Asimov,Isaac TI - Foundation T2 - The Foundation novels SN - 9780553382570 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2008/// CY - New York, New York PB - Bantam Books KW - Seldon, Hari KW - Historians KW - Fiction KW - Psychohistory KW - Prophecy KW - Archives KW - Space colonies KW - Science fiction KW - Short stories N1 - Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1951; Psychohistorians -- Encyclopedists -- Mayors -- Traders -- Merchant princes N2 - A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plants a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind ER -