Ce recueil constitue la première de deux parties du recueil de nouvelles publié en anglais sous le nom "Winds of Change and Other Stories"

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Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring testament to the creative genius of Isaac Asimov. As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear, pawns in the struggle for dominance. Whoever can control Seldon will control psychohistory—and with it the future of the Galaxy. Among those seeking to turn psychohistory into the greatest weapon known to man are a populist political demagogue, the weak-willed Emperor Cleon I, and a ruthless militaristic general. In his last act of service to humankind, Hari Seldon must somehow save his life's work from their grasp as he searches for is true heirs—a search the begins with his own granddaughter and the dream of a new Foundation.

L'Aube de Fondation (Avant Fondation, #2)

Le cycle des robots Tome 1 : les robots

Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a new breed of man who create a new force for galactic government. Thus, the Foundation hurtles into conflict with the decadent, decrepit First Empire. In this struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars, man stands at the threshold of a new, enlightened life which could easily be put aside for the old forces of barbarism. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov constitute what is very likely the most famed epic in all of science-fiction

Fondation et Empire (Fondation, #2)

When the First Foundation was conquered by a force Seldon had not foreseen - the overwhelming power of a single individual, a mutant called the Mule - the second Foundation was forced to reveal its existence and, infinitely worse, a portion of its power.    One man understood the shifting patterns of the inhabited cosmos. This was Hari Seldon, the last great scientist of the First Empire. The mathematics of psychohistory enabled Seldon to predict the collapse of the Empire and the onset of an era of chaos and war. To restore civilization in the shortest possible time, Seldon set up two Foundations.    The First was established on Terminus in the full daylight of publicity. But the Second, "at the other end of the galaxy", took shape behind a veil of total silence. Because the Second Foundation guards the laws of psychohistory, which are valid only so long as they remain secret.    So far the second Foundation's location, its most closely guarded secret of all, has been kept hidden. The Mule and the remnants of the First Foundation will do anything to discover it.    This is the story of the Second Foundation.

SECOND FOUNDATION

Contents:Prélude / Jacques Goimard --Préface / Ray Bradbury --L'Isaac non métallique, ou, La vie est belle = Second preface : the nonmetallic Isaac, or, It's a wonderful life / Ben Bova --La reine des pistes = Strip-Runner / Pamela Sargent --La solution d'Asenion = The Asenion solution / Robert Silverberg --Meurtre au urthième degré = Murder in the urth degree / Edward Wellen --La chute de Trantor = Trantor falls / Harry Turtledove --Dilemme = Dilemma / Connie Willis --Quand la nuit tombe (version Maureen Biernbaum) = Maureen Birnbaum after dark / George Alec Effinger --Équilibre = Balance / Mike Resnick --Le présent éternel = The present eternal / Barry N. Malzberg --PAPPA = PAPPI / Sheila Finch --Réunion au sommet du Mile-High = The reunion at the Mile-High / Frederik Pohl --La caverne de Platon = Plato's cave / Poul Anderson --La conscience de Fondation = Foundation's conscience / George Zebrowski --Chasseurs de voitures dals la prairie de béton / Carhunters of the concrete prairie / Robert Sheckley --La plupart des électeurs = The overhead conversation / Edward D. Hoch --Tache = Blot / Hal Clement --La quatrième loi de la robotique = The fourth law of robotics / Harry Harrison --L'originiste = The originist / Orson Scott Card --Posfaces [sic]. Un mot ou deux de Janet = A word or two from Janet / Janet Jeppson Asimov --Cinquante ans = Fifty years / Isaac Asimov.

Les Fils de Fondation

Voici quelques aperçus étonnants sur les  futurs probables  qui attendent notre humanité.
 Tous les ennuis du monde est l'histoire tragique d'un ordinateur géant, Multivac, qui, doué d'une puissance intellectuelle illimitée, découvre un jour la  difficulté d'être .
 L'Affreux Petit Garçon raconte comment un jeune néandertalien arraché à notre préhistoire est devenu le cobaye d'une impitoyable expérience scientifique.
 Avec un mélange inimitable d'humour et de réalisme, combinant la science et la fantaisie, Asimov parvient magistralement dans ce recueil de neuf récits, désormais classique, à nous dévoiler l'imprévisible.

L'avenir commence demain

They stole a boy from the past—To the astounded world of contemporary Earth, he is a beast, a Neanderthal ape-boy torn from the primordial past. But to his nurse and protector, he is something much more than a time-travel experiment. Edith Fellowes took the job with Stasis Technologies with the understanding that the nursing job would definitely be temporary...but all that changed upon meeting "Timmie," the lonely boy whose every friend and relative—even his whole race—was 40,000 years dead.—and consigned him to the futureThen Edith discovers the scientists' true intentions, and she forms a bizarre and daring plan. At stake is Timmie's very existence...and her own.

L'enfant du temps

En 2070, la Terre vit dans la prospérité et le bonheur grâce à la Pompe à Electrons, qui fournit une énergie illimitée et gratuite. Une découverte extraordinaire, à moins que...A moins que cette invention miraculeuse ne constitue à plus ou moins longue échéance une menace imparable pour notre Univers ; un piège tendu par une civilisation parallèle pour annihiler notre réalité.Seules quelques personnes ont pressenti la terrible vérité : un jeune physicien marginal, une Lunarite intuitionniste, un extraterrestre rebelle vivant sur une planète qui se meurt.Mais qui les écoutera ? Qui les croira ? Contre la stupidité, les Dieux eux-mêmes luttent en vain.

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