In PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION, what happed in the many centuries before the events made famous in Asimov's other Foundation novels - hitherto only hinted at - is now revealed. The Key to the Future It is the year 12,020 G.E. and the last Galactic Emperor of the Autun dynasty, Cleon I, sits uneasily on the throne. These are troubled times and Cleon is desperate to find a way to calm them. When young Outworld mathematician Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor to present a paper on psychohistory, his astounding theory of prediction, the emperor believes that his future security may rest on Seldon's prophetic powers. But Hari Seldon becomes the most wanted man in the Empire as he struggles desperately to keep his remarkable theory from falling into the wrong hands. At the same time he must he must forge the key to the future - a power to be known as the Foundation.

人類即將陷入全面的瘋狂，天空出現星斗、射下天火，世界即將毀滅……
薩羅大學天文系的畢奈發現了行星軌道的偏差、考古系的塞芙拉挖掘到足以推翻歷史的史前遺蹟、心理系的薛林親身體驗了神祕隧道的「黯黮」，這一切，都和光明使徒教派的預言不謀而合。科學家發出預警，然而《薩羅紀事報》的資深科學記者史蒙卻呼籲世人，不要被那群披著科學外衣的瘋子給欺騙了！
預言還是實現了，凱葛星球一片混亂。只有幾個人知道真相：那就是兩千年一次的文明回歸。
目睹夜幕低垂，以及黑夜帶來的瘋狂；然後，你會見到曙光帶來的希望。

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would 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 remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young 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.

Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy—one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcover volume.
It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.
In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building.

本书是阿西莫夫的优秀作品之一。作者以通俗的语言，深入浅出地解释了现代科学中的一百个尖端课题。其中，有些是了解现代科学技术所必须具备的基础知识，如科学的研究方法、二进制数、相对论、亚原子粒子、核聚变、熵、晶体、病毒等。有些则是当代科学技术的前言阵地，如黑洞、统一场论、夸克、快子、金属氢等。作者对这些问题的来龙去脉，它们目前处在什么样的状态、有没有希望得到解决等问题均作了回答。

阿西莫夫对各门科学都有极大的兴趣和深入研究的毅力，并且愿意为广大的科学爱好者提供通俗浅显的文章。从1959年起，阿西莫夫就每月给《幻想和科幻》杂志撰写一篇科学专栏文章，他以不拘形式的笔法涉及了各门学科，内容深入浅出，文笔情趣满溢，许多深奥的科学道理经过他的叙述，就获得了引人入胜的效果。美国双日出版公司将这些文章按学科整理出版，以满足对某一学科分支特别感兴趣的额读者，这本书就是其中的数学分册。

Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei, Achimedes, Newton and Einstein, he takes the most complex concepts and explains it in such a way that a first-time reader on the subject feels confident on his/her understanding.

These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlike our own--a world on the edge of chaos, torn between the madness of religious fanaticism and the stubborn denial of scientists. Only a handful of people on the planet Lagash are prepared to face the truth--that their six suns are setting all at once for the first time in 2,000 years, signaling the end of civilization!.

The Foundation has managed to preserve humanculture and shorten the period of chaotic barbarism after the Galactic Empire began to decay. But the Foundation still faces great challenges in its struggle to survive.

A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human than human beings. Isaac Asimov was one of the greatest science-fiction writers, and these short stories give us an unforgettable and terrifying vision of the future.

Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.

《终极抉择:威胁人类的灾难》的作者艾萨克•阿西莫夫从当代的天文学、物理学、地球物理学、生态学、环境科学和社会学等科学认识出发，以丰富的想象力，由远及近，依次推测并分析了可能导致人类毁灭的五类灾变——宇宙的灾变、太阳系的灾变、地球的灾变、人类的毁灭、文明的毁灭，以提醒人类不要失去理性，而要自珍自爱，作出明智的抉择，从而使人类意识到威胁，却不必担忧人类的灭亡。

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.  To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations.  The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection.  Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on.  Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities:  Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots--unthinkable under the laws of Robotics--or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!

Isaac Asmiov's classic novel about the decline and fall of Solaria. Gladia Delmarre's homeworld, the Spacer planet Solaria, has been abandoned - by its human population. Countless robots remain there. And when traders from Settler worlds attempt to salvage them, the robots of Solaria turn to killing...in defiance of the Three Laws of Robotics. Pax Robotica Long ago, Gladia's robots Daneel and Giskard played a vital role in opening the worlds beyond the Solar system to Settlers from Earth. Now the conscience-stricken robots are faced with an even greater challenge. Either the sacred Three Laws of Robotics are in ruins - or a new, superior Law must be established to bring peace to the galaxy. With Madam Gladia and D.G. Baley - the captain of the Settler traders and a descendant of the robots' friend Elijah Baley - Daneel and Giskard travel to the robot stronghold of Solaria...where they uncover a sinister Spacer plot to destroy Earth itself.

銀河未來仟年的歷史軌跡，心理史學宗師哈里．謝頓早已詳加規劃，只要一切按照謝頓計畫進行，仟年之後必能出現永久的太平盛世。
計畫順利執行了三百餘年，突然出現一個具有強大精神力量的突變異種──騾，以迅雷不及掩耳的速度席捲整個銀河。基地也終於難逃陷落的命運，謝頓計畫眼看就要成為明日黃花。
不過人類並未完全絕望，因為傳說中另有一個基地存在，它藏身於銀河的另一端、群星的盡頭處。
為了完成征服銀河的壯舉，騾勢必要剷除第二基地。經過五年上窮碧落下黃泉的搜索，他終於找到第二基地的下落。不過由於意想不到的波折，騾的尋找究竟有沒有成功，卻成為銀河歷史上最大的懸案……
本書特色
1. 一九六六年在美國克里夫蘭舉行的世界科幻大會雨果獎（Hugo Award）--科幻界至高無上的獎項中，「基地三部曲」擊敗了「魔戒之王」（The Lord Of The Rings）系列，奪得了「永遠的最佳系列小說」（ The Best Series Of All Times ）的美名。
2.強調科幻大師以撒．艾西莫夫超經典作品〈基地系列〉吸引讀者及科幻迷們。
3.全新紀念版書衣珍藏。