Preludio a la Fundacion es el primer libro del Ciclo de la Fundacion , tercer bloque de la celebre Saga de la Fundacion , la serie que catapulto al autor en lo mas alto de la ciencia ficcion.
Corre el ano 12020 en Trantor, la prospera capital del Imperio Galactico, una civilizacion de una complejidad tecnologica y cultural inimaginable. Sin embargo, Hari Seldon, la mente cientifica mas brillante de su epoca acaba de augurar un desastre colosal a traves de la psicohistoria, una nueva ciencia capaz de predecir el futuro mediante formulas matematicas. Cuando el emperador Cleon busque apropiarsela, Seldon debera huir para que sus ideas no caigan en las manos equivocadas.
Esta precuela a la famosa trilogia de la Fundacion es un hito en la historia de la ciencia ficcion y toda una revolucion para los lectores, tanto los fans de los libros originales como los que estan a punto de embarcarse en este viaje intergalactico.
Una de las carreras mas formidables de la ciencia ficcion . -The Times
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall-those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.
Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire … the man who holds the key to the future-an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.
