Seldon does not have the ability to prevent the decline of humanity that he predicts. The book introduces Hari Seldon, a brilliant visionary and psychohistorian whose job is to use mathematics and probability to predict the future. Foundation is set in the future, when the world is barely remembered, and humans have colonized the galaxy. It helped to redefine the science fiction genre with its seamless interweaving of science fact with fiction. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is one of his earliest and best-known works, which he began when he was only twenty-one. Collectively they tell the early story of the Foundation, an institute founded by psychohistorian Hari Seldon to preserve the best of galactic civilization after the collapse of the Galactic Empire. Foundation is a cycle of five interrelated short stories, first published as a single book by Gnome Press in 1951. It is the first published in his Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into the Foundation series). Foundation is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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