The first volume in Issac Asimov's world-famous saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series.

彼得•阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd，1949— ） 英国历史作家和小说家，著有“英格兰史六部曲”、《伦敦传》和《莎士比亚传》等六十多部作品。1984年当选英国皇家文学学会成员，曾获毛姆文学奖、惠特布雷德传记奖和英国皇家文学学会的威廉•海涅曼奖，2003年因其在写作方面的卓越贡献被授予大英帝国司令勋章。 【译者简介】 赵国新 北京外国语大学英语学院教授、博士生导师，中国外国文学学会英语文学研究分会常务理事，中国国家图书馆“文津讲坛”特聘教授。主要从事西方文论和19世纪英国小说研究，主持过多项国家级和省部级课题。已出版《20世纪西方文论选读》《西方古典文论选读》《自由及其背叛》《现代西方思想史：1789年至今》等专著或译著二十余部。

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long. After yea...(展开全部)

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all reference...(展开全部)

The Foundation has managed to preserve humanculture and shorten the period of chaotic barbarism after the Galactic Empire began to decay. But the Foundation still faces great challenges in its struggle to survive.

A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the s...(展开全部)

简介：「Foundation：智械」，是「Foundation」系列的新作，本文将会写出一些新颖的东西，顺带提一嘴，「智械」可能会是我灵感大爆发的一次

A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the s...(展开全部)

The Foundation has managed to preserve humanculture and shorten the period of chaotic barbarism after the Galactic Empire began to decay. But the Foundation still faces great challenges in its struggle to survive.

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. ...(展开全部)