Science Fiction · EpicFive hundred years after the Foundation's founding, Golan Trevize searches for the Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
by Isaac Asimov
A council member and a historian search for Earth and the Second Foundation
Doubleday published the novel on June 1, 1982. It is the fourth book in the Foundation series and was written more than thirty years after the original trilogy. Set five hundred years after the founding of the Foundation, it follows Golan Trevize, a Council member on Terminus, who suspects the Second Foundation still exists. He is ordered to search for it alongside Janov Pelorat, a professor of ancient history, under the cover of looking for Earth. Harla Branno, Stor Gendibal and Bliss are among the other characters. The hardcover has 367 pages.
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Who
Golan Trevize, Janov Pelorat, Harla Branno, Stor Gendibal and Bliss.
World
The Foundation's galaxy, five hundred years after its founding.
What makes it different
It was written more than thirty years after the original Foundation trilogy and was Asimov's first novel on The New York Times best-seller list. It also won the Locus Award.
Feel
Sweeping and familiar.
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Further reading
- Foundation's EdgeWikipedia