The Academy cycle chronicles the rise and fall of a vast galactic empire ruled by deterministic laws of “psychohistory.” The Great Plan of Gary Seldon foreshadowed the decline of the empire in five hundred years. This is inevitable.... This is an inert process in which the entire population of the Galaxy is involved, the actions of individuals in which can not be compared even with a mosquito bite for an elephant. Gary Seldon founded the Academy, which, according to the plan, was to be the center of the revival of the Empire. The period of decline in this case decreased from the predicted thirty millennia to one .. For a long time, Seldon's plan was unbreakable. People from birth were instilled with the idea that the history of the future was already written by the hand of the great genius of psychohistory. So how could it happen that one person was able to destroy the Plan, in a small period of time subjugating the entire Galaxy? This could not have been foreseen even by Seldon ... Contents:1. Prelude to the Academy (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya), 2. On the Way to the Academy (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya), 3. Academy (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya), 4. Academy and Empire (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya), 5. Second Academy (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya), 6. Academy on the Edge of Destruction (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya), 7. Academy and Earth (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya)