Second Foundation

An unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building,  Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving  humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty  thousand years long.



 After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins-destroyed  by the mutant mind power of the Mule.  But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation  hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge  of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism.  The Mule failed to find it the  first time-but now he is certain he knows where it lies.



 The fate of the Foundation  rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible  secret.  As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors  of the First Foundation begin their desperate search.  They too want the Second Foundation  destroyed . . . before it destroys them.