![]() ![]() ![]() Seldon is frustrated with his progress in learning history and takes an excursion to "Upperside", where he narrowly avoids a prowling "jet-down" and dying of exposure. Demerzel takes Seldon to the Streeling University and introduces him to a young historian, Dora Venabili, whom he convinces to accompany Seldon and protect him. The Emperor wants him to turn this into a practical tool to shore up his reign, and he begins a "flight", which takes him to four distinct sectors of this planetary "human beehive", directed by a journalist, Chetter Hummin, who warns that Cleon's chief of staff, Eto Demerzel, is a dangerous schemer. The Galactic Empire has been in decline for years when mathematician Hari Seldon arrives from Helicon to read a theoretical paper about "psychohistory" before the Decennial Mathematics Convention on Trantor, the galactic capital. (Galactic era), during the rocky reign of the Emperor Cleon I. Prelude to Foundation is set in the year 12,020 G.E. ![]() Prelude to Foundation tells the story of mathematician Hari Seldon, fleeing around the enclosed planet Trantor, evading the Emperor who wants to control his psychohistory, and coming to understand that his invention can indeed have a practical application in predicting the fate of mankind. ![]()
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