An able psychohistorian can predict the long-term aggregate behavior of billions of people many, many years in the future. Psychohistory is a blend of crowd psychology and high-level math. The brilliant Hari Seldon has used a science of his own invention, called psychohistory, to determine that the Empire is near collapse. There is a Galactic Empire, consisting of countless planets spread across millions of light-years. The stories were inspired by Asimov's reading of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and their premise is so simple, it feels almost inevitable: But on the off chance that some our you reading this aren't going to do that, I'll quickly summarize: The Foundation series began as a set of short stories Asimov wrote under the guidance of legendary Astounding Science Fiction editor John W. Anyway, if anyone reading this hasn't read the Foundation books (at least the first three), I feel pretty strongly that they should immediately stop whatever they're doing and rectify that.
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