The Foundation Trilogy

«Gathered here are the three Foundation novels, the grandiose saga awarded in 1966 as the best science fiction cycle of all time. The story, set in the distant future, begins when the Galactic Empire, which for centuries has exercised its power over all known planets, disappears, and thirty thousand years of ignorance and violence are about to begin. Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of ‘psychohistory’, knows what a bleak future awaits humanity. To preserve civilisation, he decides to gather the best scientists and scholars on Terminus, a small planet on the edge of the Galaxy. This is the Foundation, which remains the only beacon of knowledge, but under perpetual threat from mutants who intend to destroy it. This volume pays tribute to the undisputed master of twentieth-century science fiction, publishing his absolute masterpiece, an epic that reveals all Asimov's extraordinary inventive and artistic gifts, elevating his work beyond the boundaries of genre literature.» (Source: back cover, translated from Italian)