In this last volume of the "Foundation" trilogy, a secret Second Foundation competes with the First Foundation and threatens the victories of a new civilization.
Dr. Susan Calvin, the first great practitioner of the new science of robopsychology in 2008, looks back on her career with U.S. Robotics on the occasion of her retirement fifty years later, telling stories of how the mechanical race developed.
Michael and Jillian Dansky become caught up in a nightmare when Michael nods off while driving home from a party and wakes to find he has almost hit a little girl who he drives home to an empty house haunted with stolen childhood memories.
Dr. Susan Calvin, the first great practitioner of the new science of robopsychology in 2008, looks back on her career with U.S. Robotics on the occasion of her retirement fifty years later, telling stories of how the mechanical race developed.
The First Foundation on Terminus and the Second Foundation on Trantor suspect each other of manipulating the restoration of Galactic to its own advantage.
As the Galactic Empire declines, psychohistorian Hari Seldon and his band of psychobiologists form the Foundation, designed to be the nucleus of an eventual ideal universal ruling corporation.
Legislators are scrambling to solve the increasingly serious problem of global warming, and when Anna discovers a way to solve the problem globally, she tries to get the information out to the public before regulators and other interested parties suppress the evidence.
Survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters begin to gather their forces to grab their share of what is left of the Seven Kingdoms in the aftermath of the war of the Five Kings.
