Second Foundation

Second Foundation is the third novel of the Foundation series written in 1970. Download high resolution version (400x676, 61 KB)Scan I made of the cover of Second Foundation (Isaac Asimov) - fair use claimed This image is a book cover. ... Download high resolution version (400x676, 61 KB)Scan I made of the cover of Second Foundation (Isaac Asimov) - fair use claimed This image is a book cover. ... Hari Seldons holographic image, pictured on a paperback edition of Foundation, appears at various times in the First Foundations history, to guide it through the social and economic crises that befall it. ...

The term also describes the organization by that name which is the focus of the book. The organization's existence (and nothing more) had been revealed in Foundation, searched for in Foundation and Empire, and makes brief appearances in this novel. It would not be described in detail until Foundation's Edge. Psychohistorian: Hari Seldon Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimovs Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). ... Foundation and Empire Foundation and Empire is a novel written by Isaac Asimov in 1952. ... Foundations Edge Foundations Edge is a novel by Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. ...

The Novel

It is written in two distinct parts.

Part I: Search By the Mule is about The Mule's search for the elusive Second Foundation, with the intent of destroying it. In the end the First Speaker of the Second Foundation telepathically modifies the Mule to make him not care about finding the Second Foundation. The Mule is a fictional character from Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series. ...

Part II: Search By the Foundation takes place a few decades after the first part, some years after the Mule's death (by natural causes). The members of the (First) Foundation are now fully aware that the Second Foundation is out there (they had known of its existence all along, but it had never sunk in until they were able to turn the Mule back). Also concurrent with this plot thread is the Foundation's ongoing conflict with the Mule's former imperial capital at Kalgan. The ensuing war is won by the Foundation, and is listed in the Encyclopedia Galactica as the last major conflict before the rise of the Second Empire. Kalgan can refer to: A city in China, Zhangjiakou A planet in Isaac Asimovs Foundation series, Kalgan (Foundation universe) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

After inventing a device that jams telepathic abilities while simultaneously causing telepaths great pain, the Foundation finds and locates telepaths on Terminus, "at the other end of the galaxy" (from the first Foundation, also at Terminus). Since, as one character puts it, "a circle has no end", then by tracing the disc of the galaxy around its edge one would come back to Terminus. Thus, they declare the Second Foundation destroyed after finding the roughly 50 mentalic agents on Terminus and are content to forget the matter. Finally, in response to the question "Where is the Second Foundation?", the First Foundation had found an answer that fit. However, although this was the answer that fit, this was not the answer that was true. Terminus is a fictional planet at the edge of the Galaxy in Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series, capital of the Foundation. ...

The Second Foundation was actually located on Trantor, at the centre of the galaxy. It was called Star's End due to the ancient saying that "All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end". The location was also said to fit the "other end of the galaxy" location since the galaxy is not in fact a disc but a spiral - and from the edge, the other end of the a spiral lies at the centre. The book also noted that Hari Seldon was a social scientist, not a physical one. When the two Foundations were founded, they could be described as being at opposite social ends of the Galaxy - with Trantor at the very center of galactic power and prestige and Terminus at the other extreme. Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimovs Foundation series and Empire series of science-fiction novels. ... In Isaac Asimovs The Foundation Series of science fiction novels, Stars End is the location of the Second Foundation. ... Hari Seldon is the intellectual hero of Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series. ... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ...

The Second Foundation would again be revisited in Foundation's Edge. Foundations Edge Foundations Edge is a novel by Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. ...

The Organization

The Second Foundation was founded by Hari Seldon as a budding colony of mentalics, people with telepathic abilities, located at Star's End, a planet vaguely referred to by Seldon. They are governed by a council of the strongest telepaths, called the Speakers. The leader of the group is the First Speaker (a possible reference to the Roman title Princeps). Hari Seldon is the intellectual hero of Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series. ... Mentalic is a term Isaac Asimovs Foundation series uses to cover a range of unusual psychological capabilities. ... Telepathy from the Greek τηλε, tele, distant, and πάθεια, patheia, feeling, is the supposed ability to communicate information from one mind to another, and is one form of extra-sensory perception or anomalous cognition. ... In Isaac Asimovs The Foundation Series of science fiction novels, Stars End is the location of the Second Foundation. ... The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ... The Latin word Princeps (plural: principes) means the first. This article is devoted to a number of specific histocal meanings the word took, by far the most important of which follows first. ...