The third installment of the legendary sci-fi series
The actions of an individual human being are something unpredictable - but the reactions of human crowds can be subjected to statistical processing. The larger the crowd, the more accuracy can be achieved. And the number of human masses that the Foundation works with is equal to the population of all the millions of inhabited worlds.
Seldon's plan lies in ruins - and with it, the Foundation's empire. Even the equations of the most gifted mathematician of all time were not enough for Mezko, a mutant of unsuspected psychic abilities. But all is not lost: Somewhere at the other end of the Galaxy lies the Second Foundation, where all the knowledge of mankind was to be preserved despite centuries of barbarism. Mezko failed to find the Second Foundation the first time. Now he's sure it will work the second time. The fate of humanity rests in the hands of Arkadia Darella, a 14-year-old girl burdened by a terrible secret. And while the scientists of the Second Foundation prepare for a decisive confrontation with the Mezk, the representatives of the overwhelmed First Foundation embark on a hopeless journey into space. They too want to contribute to the destruction of the Second Foundation - before it destroys them!
