Story & Timeline
25 entries in the Foundation compendium.
Salvor Hardin Becomes MayorThe mayor who defeated an empire with a spreadsheet and a sermon.Hari Seldon Formulates PsychohistoryA mathematician predicts the fall of an empire and engineers a plan to save humanity from darkness.Third Seldon Crisis EmergesTrade is a shield; when it breaks, the Foundation must forge an embargo.The First Seldon CrisisA balance of power keeps a young Foundation alive.Conquest of the Foundation by the MuleA mutant warlord shatters the Seldon Plan with emotional conquest.The First CrisisA young city-state survives an empire's collapse through a balance of power instead of fleets.The Fall of the Galactic EmpireTwelve thousand years of empire, ending as Seldon said it would.The Second Foundation RevealedThe Mule finds it, the Foundation finds it, and both are wrong.The Council of the First FoundationFrom a board of encyclopedists to the council that rules Terminus.The Mission to TrantorA young mathematician arrives at the capital just as the Empire turns on Seldon.Terminus SettlementThe remote world where the Foundation's future is forged.Bel Riose CampaignAn admired general is freed from prison to face the Foundation.Second CrisisThe sword was sheathed, and the temple rose to rule the stars.The Rise of the MuleA mutant who changes how people feel, and with it the course of history.The Fall of Terminus to the MuleThe Vault opens, Seldon talks about the wrong crisis, and the lights go out.General Bel Riose's CampaignA brilliant general's final, doomed crusade to save a dying empire from its statistical fate.Gaal Dornick's Arrival at TerminusA brilliant mathematician summoned to Trantor to save the galaxy.Foundation and EmpireSecond book in Asimov's Foundation series, featuring the Mule.Foundation's EdgeFourth Foundation novel, first Asimov bestseller, explores hidden powers.A Glimpse of DarknessAn episode of the second season of the Apple TV+ series Foundation.Where the Stars are Scattered ThinlyAn episode of the second season of the Apple TV+ series Foundation.Robot seriesIsaac Asimov's foundational robot stories and novels.King and CommonerAn episode of the second season of the Apple TV+ series Foundation.Why the Gods Made WineAn episode of the second season of the Apple TV+ series Foundation.Foundation universeA future history of humanity's galactic colonization across millennia.
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