For twelve thousand years the Galactic E But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years To preserve knowledge and save athers the best s thee of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations He calls his sanctuary the Foundation But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at theE choice: subht them and be destroyed