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Engelstalig, de 7 Foundation delen. Asimov heeft zoveel geschreven en onderling gelinkt dat de andere series zoals Robot en Empire eigenlijk ook in deze spot zouden moeten zitten. Ik heb ze wel maar moet nog de volgorde e.d. uitzoeken. 
Het zijn epubs. Hou je kudos maar voor mensen die ze verzamelen, ga gewoon lekker lezen.

Ze staan in alt.binaries.e-book en ik heb er dit keer maar .zip van gemaakt omdat sommige mensen problemen hebben met 7zip. (ik poste eerder in alt.binaries.ebooks maar die nieuwsgroep wordt nog niet door alle sites geindexeerd.)


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The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept of mathematical sociology (analogous to mathematical physics) devised by Asimov and his editor John W. Campbell. Using the law of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale; it is error-prone on a small scale. It works on the principle that the behaviour of a mass of people is predictable if the quantity of this mass is very large (equal to the population of the galaxy, which has a population of quadrillions of humans, inhabiting millions of star systems). The larger the number, the more predictable is the future.

Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting thirty thousand years before a second great empire arises. To shorten the period of barbarism, he creates two Foundations, small, secluded havens of all human knowledge, at "opposite ends of the galaxy".

The focus of the trilogy is on the First Foundation, that of the planet Terminus, in the extreme periphery of the galaxy. The people living there are working on an all-encompassing Encyclopedia, and are unaware of Seldon's real intentions (for if they were, the variables would become too uncontrolled). The Encyclopedia serves to preserve knowledge of the physical sciences after the collapse.