Prelude to Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, 1) It is the year 12,020 GE and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Ireat multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of uniical and cultural complexity Yet Cleon knows there are those ould 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 re 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 know forever after as the Foundation