BBC Audio – The Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy

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BBC Audio - The Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy
BBC Audio – The Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy
BBC Audio – Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy: (1) Foundation (2) Foundation and Empire (3) Second Foundation

The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. First published as a series of short stories and short stories in 1942-1950, then in three collections in 1951-1953, the series was for almost thirty years a trilogy: (1) Foundation; (2) Foundation and Empire; and (3) Second Foundation. It won the single Hugo Award for "Best Series Ever" in 1966.

The premise of the stories is that at the end of a future Galactic Empire, mathematician Hari Seldon spends his life developing a theory of psychohistory, a new and effective mathematics of sociology. Using the statistical laws of mass action, she can predict the future of large populations. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age that will last 30,000 years before the birth of a second empire. Although the momentum of the Empire's fall is too great to be stopped, Seldon hatches a plan by which "the rushing mass of events must be deflected just a little" to ultimately limit this interregnum to only a thousand years.

The first stories were inspired by Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The series' plot focuses on the growth and reach of the Foundation, set against the backdrop of the "decline and fall of the Galactic Empire". The themes of Asimov's stories were also influenced by the political strain of science fiction fandom, associated with the Futurians, known as Michelism.

An eight-part radio adaptation of the original trilogy, with sound design by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1973, one of the first BBC radio drama series to be made in stereo.

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