For more than ten millennia, mankind has mastered the Galaxy, more than twenty million inhabited worlds numbered Empire, the capital of which was Trentor. But the laws of the Empire are inexorable, and the once-prosperous Galactic Empire is slow. But surely it is moving towards complete disintegration .. Endless star wars begin, interplanetary trade fades, distant worlds lose contact with the center of the Galaxy And only the genius of Gary Seldon resists the final decline of human culture. A group of scientists from the Academy they created builds on the wreckage of the Empire the rudiments of a new civilization