銀河未來仟年的歷史軌跡,心理史學宗師哈里.謝頓早已詳加規劃,只要一切按照謝頓計畫進行,仟年之後必能出現永久的太平盛世。
計畫順利執行了三百餘年,突然出現一個具有強大精神力量的突變異種 ─ 騾,以迅雷不及掩耳的速度席捲整個銀河。基地也終於難逃陷落的命運,謝頓計畫眼看就要成為明日黃花。
不過人類並未完全絕望,因為傳說中另有一個基地存在,它藏身於銀河的另一端、群星的盡頭處。
為了完成征服銀河的壯舉,騾勢必要剷除第二基地。經過五年上窮碧落下黃泉的搜索,他終於找到第二基地的下落。不過由於意想不到的波折,騾的尋找究竟有沒有成功,卻成為銀河歷史上最大的懸案……
*本書中譯本<<第二基地>>由奇幻基地出版。
The third novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATIONThe Foundation lies in ruins--destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity’s shining past--and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. Is she the Foundation’s savior--or its deadliest enemy? Unforgettable, thought-provoking, and riveting, Second Foundation is a stunning novel of adventure and ideas writ huge across the Galaxy--a powerful tale of humankind’s struggle to preserve the fragile light of wisdom against the threat of its own dark barbarism.