The foundation

Chapter One
HARI SELDON-. . . born in the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era; died 12,069. The dates are more commonly given in terms of the current Foundational Era as -79 to the year 1 F.E. Born to middle-class parents on Helicon, Arcturus sector (where his father, in a legend of doubtful authenticity, was a tobacco grower in the hydroponic plants of the planet), he early showed amazing ability in mathematics. Anecdotes concerning his ability are innumerable, and some are contradictory. At the age of two, he is said to have . . . 

. . . Undoubtedly his greatest contributions were in the field of psychohistory. Seldon found the field little more than a set of vague axioms; he left it a profound statistical science. . . . 

. . . The best existing authority we have for the details of his life is the biography written by Gaal Dornick who, as a young man, met Seldon two years before the great mathematician's death. The story of the meeting . . .


ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA* 

Author- Isaac Asimov
Publisher- New York: Bantam Books 2004.

From one of the titans of science fiction comes the millennia-spanning foundation. the first of the expansive trilogy that has some of the most ambitious world-building since Tolkien and most thought-provoking work since Tolstoy.

After a band of psychologists (the science of predicting the future) come to the realisation that the galactic empire is in decline and will fall apart in the near future leading to thousands of years of war and regression, they set out with psychohistorian Hari Seldon as their leader to create a colony and preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind.

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Red rising

The first thing you should know about me is I am my father’s son. And when they came for him, I did as he asked. I did not cry. Not when the Society televised the arrest. Not when the Golds tried him. Not when the Grays hanged him. Mother hit me for that. My brother Kieran was supposed to be the stoic one. He was the elder, I the younger. I was supposed to cry. Instead, Kieran bawled like a girl when Little Eo tucked a haemanthus into Father’s left workboot and ran back to her own father’s side. My sister Leanna murmured a lament beside me. I just watched and thought it a shame that he died dancing but without his dancing shoes.

On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

Author- Pierce Brown
Publisher- New York: Ballantine Books 2014.

annotations- the debut novel from Pierce Brown that started the red rising trilogy, winner of Goodreads Choice Awards: 2014, a fast-paced, thrilling, journey into an expansive dystopian Sci-Fi fantasy world that flows from earths moon to the far edge of the solar system. our story follows Darrow after the execution of his wife throws himself into a revolutionary cell which aims to infiltrate the ruling Gold a genetically enhanced bloodthirsty
warrior class that rules over the solar system with an Iron fist.

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The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. "THE CALL OF CTHULHU"

Author- H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher- New York: Race Point Publishing, a division of Book Sales, Inc. [2014]

From the author of The Call of Cthulhu, History of the Necronomicon and Reanimator. This complete collection contains the authors novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories.
the origin of Lovecraftian horror itself, inspiring countless films, novels, boardgames. one of the few works to inspire an entire genre of fiction and one of the rawest looks at the mind-breaking terror of the unknown, a look at what lies beyond. This collection swings from deep space, to prehistory, to the depths of the minds of man, to outside our dimension, then into the unsettling house down the street, the unknown can truly be anywhere. 

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