Maia, one of the few normal, uncloned, and outcast children handicapped by their uniqueness, must summon all her strength to win a place in her world run by high-caste families of clones. Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? Circling the sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in history-a journey into the boiling inferno of the sun. No species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron-except perhaps mankind. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles a hostile planet to safeguard her secret-the fate of the Progenitors. The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed on the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. The tenth anniversary edition of Brin's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel. Line drawings.ĭavid Brin / Library Binding / Published October 1999 has what sci-fi readers want these days intelligence, action, and an epic scale'.-Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War-an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. The first book was Gregory Benford's F.ĭavid Brin / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999 More than four decades after Foundation's publication, Isaac Asimov's estate authorized a new Foundation trilogy, to be written by science fiction's reigning kings. Asimov followed up Foundation with six sequels, and the series became a mainstay of modern science fiction. Foundation is the far-future tale of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, who tries to save the crumbling Galactic Empire by preserving all the knowledge of humanity in a vast Encyclopedia Galactica. In 1951, science fiction legend Isaac Asimov published what would become a classic in the field.

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