Asimov: The Foundation Trilogy

Can you imagine Edward Gibbon´s Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire trasplanted into the Future and Space?  This is the scenario of the Foundations trilogy. A Roman-like Galactic Empire, powerfully imagined by Asimov, is in deep, irreversible Crisis. But this time, there seems to be a way to prevent the long period of darkness, after its final death, and before the dawn of a new second Empire.

Hari Seldon and his Science will cut short the dark medieval centuries to come. What is his Science? A potent and deterministic mathematical treatment of reality, its past and future, for which human beings and their relations in the fabric of time are similar to the molecules of a gas and their behavior.

A strong vision of the future, inspired in the past and our true history. With an imaginative prospective of future scientific disciplines and a page-turning (and mind-disturbing) plot.

Foundation Trilogy (1951-53). Isaac Asimov