Foundation and Empire

The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the gre masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their uniqi blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive worl building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous groi of men and women to preserve humanity's light against inexorable tide of darkness and violence. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian H; Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science a technology, the Foundation has survived the greed a barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now must face the Empire—still the mightiest force in t Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon. But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth o the extraordinary creature called the Mule—a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets... a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.