This classic text takes readers through a series of observations about the development of intelligent life here on Earth, and he brings the data we have about ourselves into the question of whether or not intelligent life is probable elsewhere in the universe.

Civilisations extraterrestres

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?

Seconde Fondation

Au XIIIe millénaire, sur la planète Trantor, capitale de l'Empire galactique, un jeune mathématicien, Hari Seldon, inventeur de la psycho-histoire, une analyse du comportement humain qui permet de prédire l'évolution de la société annonce la fin de l'Empire et l'arrivée imminente d'une période de ténèbres. Seldon tente un pari fou : créer une fondation dont le but serait de rassembler toutes les connaissances humaines afin de faciliter la reconstruction. Mais les politiques ne voient en lui qu'un fauteur de troubles...Ce premier volet du cycle de Fondation contient :• Prélude à Fondation (Prelude to Foundation)• L'Aube de Fondation (Forward the Foundation)

Vers Fondation : Le Déclin de Trantor

At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!

Fondation foudroyée

La Terre. Tout porte à croire que le légendaire berceau de l'humanité se trouve au cœur d'un vaste plan à l'échelle galactique, destiné à garantir en coulisses la pérennité de la civilisation: une synthèse parfaite entre le matérialisme de la Première Fondation et le mentalisme de la Seconde, mise en œuvre par une mystérieuse puissance. Mais comment trouver une planète que beaucoup croient mythique, et dont toute trace a inexplicablement disparu des archives galactiques ?

Terre et Fondation

Newly arrived on Planet Anderson Two just before Christmas, Jonathan is warned about the dangerous native inhabitants, but an accidental meeting with one of the natives convinces him that they are friendly and peaceful.

L'invité du ciel

Was the mysterious 30-megaton blast that flattened a Siberian forest in 1908 actually caused by a small black hole? Does matter drawn into a black hole reappear out the 'other side' as anti-matter, a sort of mirror-image of the universe as we know it? Could back holes explain the 'Big Bang'? Does their existence raise the possibility that matter can move faster than the speed of light? The noted scientist and science fiction author explores the exciting implications of black holes, taking the reader on an engaging tour from the atom's innermost core to the outermost reaches of the universe.

Trous noirs

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire -- both scientists and scholars -- and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun -- or fight them and be destroyed.

Civilisations extraterrestres

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