Le cycle de Fondation Tome 4 : Fondation foudroyée

Avec la complicité de Silverberg, Asimov tire un roman de sa nouvelle intitulée "Nightfall". Il y décrit une humanité confrontée au retour des ténèbres et à la fin des temps. Traduction révisée et augmentée.

Le Retour des Ténèbres

Pourquoi des extraterrestres veulent-ils à tout prix nous acheter Jupiter ? Ce n'est pas tant que nous en ayons besoin mais voilà un échange commercial des plus troublants... Avec les quatorze nouvelles de ce recueil (re) découvrez un Asimov en grande forme, tout autant porté par l'humour que par le romantisme.

Cher Jupiter et autres nouvelles

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

Prévoyant l'effondrement de l'Empire galactique et une longue période de ténèbres consécutives, le psychohistorien Hari Seldon a créé deux Fondations, l'une officielle, l'autre secrète, qui manipulent l'évolution de l'humanité. Or cinq siècles après leur établissement, la foudre, de nouveau, menace. Quelqu'un fausse les cartes du jeu. Est-ce la Seconde Fondation, que la première croyait s'être libérée ? Est-ce une troisième force, qui œuvrerait dans l'ombre et dont nul ne saurait rien ? Commence alors une course-poursuite au terme de laquelle se cache une surprise de taille...

Fondation foudroyée (Fondation #4)

Myriades

Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all—and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible. But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know. Trevize believes the answer lies at the site of humanity's roots: fabled Earth . . . if it still exists. For no one is sure where the planet of Gaia's first settlers is to be found in the immense wilderness of the Galaxy. Nor can anyone explain why no record of Earth has been preserved, no mention of it made anywhere in Gaia's vast world-memory. It is an enigma Trevize is determined to resolve, and a quest he is determined to undertake, at any cost.

Terre et Fondation

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.

Le cycle de Fondation Tome 4 : Fondation foudroyée

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