SecondFoundation

SECOND FOUNDATION ISAAC ASIMOV Contents PROLOGUE PART I SEARCH BY THE MULE 1. TWO MEN AND THE MULE First Interlude 2. TWO MEN WITHOUT THE MULE Second Interlude 3. TWO MEN AND A PEASANT Third Interlude 4. TWO MEN AND THE ELDERS Fourth Interlude 5. ONE MAN AND THE MULE 6. ONE MAN, THE MULE – AND ANOTHER Last Interlude PART II SEARCH BY THE FOUNDATION 7. ARCADIA 8. SELDON'S PLAN 9. THE CONSPIRATORS 10. APPROACHING CRISIS 11. STOWAWAY 12. LORD 13. LADY 14. ANXIETY 15. THROUGH THE GRID 16. BEGINNING OF WAR 17. WAR 18. GHOST OF A WORLD 19. END OF WAR 20. "I KNOW ..." 21. THE ANSWER THAT SATISFIED 22. THE ANSWER THAT WAS TRUE Prologue The First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years. It had included all the planets of the Galaxy in a centralized rule, sometimes tyrannical, sometimes benevolent, always orderly. Human beings had forgotten that any other form of existence could be. All except Hari Seldon. Hari Seldon was the last great scientist of the First Empire. It was he who brought the science of psycho-history to its full development. Psycho-history was the quintessence of sociology, it ......