The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov, First Avon Printing 1976

ASIMOV'S BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (also available in an Equinox edition), INSIDE THE ATOM, and THE UNIVERSE (two basic introductory works which have been read world-wide). FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism.