Golan Trevize, raadsman van de Eerste Foundation, krijgt opdracht het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van het Galactische Imperium te bestuderen. Daarvoor gaat hij op zoek naar Aarde, de plaats waar eonen geleden de mensheid ontstond.

Maar Aarde schijnt op onverklaarbare wijze uit het Melkwegstelsel verdwenen te zijn en zelfs in de bibliotheken is geen enkele verwijzing meer terug te vinden. Heeft de tijd zijn werk gedaan of zijn hier andere krachten bezig geweest? Golan en zijn metgezellen moeten zien te achterhalen wie Aarde zo nonchalant heeft ‘zoek gemaakt’ en waarom.

La serie de la Fundación (Fundación, Fundación e Imperio, Segunda Fundación y Los límites de la Fundación) es la obra de ciencia ficción más leída de todos los tiempos. Como gran acontecimiento editorial, la saga monumental continúa con Fundación y Tierra, que es la quinta y más emocionante novela de la serie. Golan Trevize, ex consejero de la Primera Fundación, se encuentra con que debe realizar una tarea formidable: determinar el futuro del desarrollo galáctico. Pero, ¿qué fuerza instintiva ha llevado a Trevize a esta extraordinaria idea?

¿Procede acaso de lo más profundo de la Historia antigua de otro gran mundo llamado Tierra? Trevize tiene que saber la respuesta a estas preguntas. Al descubrir que toda referencia a la Tierra ha desaparecido misteriosamente de la Biblioteca Galáctica de Trantor, sale en busca del planeta «perdido». Y él y sus compañeros, el historiador Janov Pelorat y la hermosa gaiana Bliss, al viajar de un mundo prohibido a otro, se enfrentan audazmente a una odisea llena de peligros, de la que dependerá el destino del Imperio y de la propia Humanidad.

Continuación de la serie «La Fundación».

Ésta es una novela soberbia en la que vemos cómo la Humanidad, en un lejano futuro galáctico, busca sus orígenes en un planeta perdido llamado Tierra…

El sistema solar ha sido colonizado por la Tierra, unificada bajo el gobierno del Consejo de Ciencias.

En el ejambre de asteroides que orbitan entre Marte y Júpiter, como antaño en los archipiélagos del Caribe, se ocultan los feroces corsarios del espacio, que han sustituido el velero por la astronave y el trabuco por el rayo desintegrador. Pero tras sus correrías y pillajes se esconde una amenaza mucho mayor, un terrible misterio que Lucky Starr, joven agente especial del Consejo de Ciencias, deberá desentrañar.

Tout le monde connait le nom d’Hari Seldon. Depuis des milliers d’années. On n’imagine même plus que ce personnage légendaire a été un homme ; qu’il y eut un temps reculé où il venait à peine d’inventer la psychohistoire et où il n’y voyait qu’une pure spéculation, sans applications pratiques…

Mais dès qu’il fit sa communication, tout le monde comprit. La psychohistoire ne pouvait pas prédire l’avenir ? Les politiques s’en moquaient ! Ce qui comptait pour eux, c’est que les gens allaient y croire. Ensuite, les équations diraient ce qu’on leur ferait dire. Et si Seldon n’était pas d’accord, tant pis pour lui !

Alors le jeune chercheur s’enfuit en compagnie d’une belle historienne, Dors Venabili. Il sillona les dédales souterrains de la planète Trantor, capitale de l’Empire Galactique, toujours traqué par ceux qui voulaient contrôler sa découverte. Et ce qu’il vit le stupéfia. La ville géante se désagrégeait. Partout s’étaient constituées des communautés isolées, farouchement attachées à leur autonomie. Un terrain idéal pour affiner son modèle et formuler l’avenir inquiétant qui se dessinait sous ses yeux.

Etait-il trop tard pour éviter la catastrophe ? Peut-être y avait-il une chance d’agir…

Next novel in the 'Gridlinked' sequence, with the resurrection of the terrifying Mr Crane, a massive android kiling machine… and one with a grudge.

The knight errant Anderson is hunting a dragon on the primitive Out-Polity world of Cull, little knowing that far away a man — more technology than human flesh — has resurrected a brass killing machine to assist in a similar hunt that encompasses star systems.

When agent Cormac learns that his old enemy still lives, he sets out in pursuit aboard the attack ship Jack Ketch… whilst scientist Mika begins discovering the horrifying truth about that ancient technology ostensibly produced by the alien Jain, who died out five million years ago. The people of Cull must struggle desperately to survive on a planet roamed by ferocious insectile monsters, while they build the industrial base that will enable them to reach their forefathers' starship still orbiting far above them.

An entity calling itself Dragon assists them, but its motives are questionable having created genetic by-blows of humans and the hideous local autochthons, before growing bored with that game. And now Cull, for millennia geologically inactive, suffers earthquakes…

Meanwhile the brass killing machine, Mr Crane, seeks to escape a bloody past he can neither forget nor truly remember. So mindlessly he will continues his search for sanity, which he might find in an instant or not for a thousand years.

During a war between two planets in the same solar systemeach occupied by adapted humanswhat is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There, a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicidebut why?

By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggersgiant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers.

The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence.

When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being possess…and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.

Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war.

Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebuss attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself…

From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut downbecause something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun.

From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raises questions: why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it?

Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing pernicious Jain nodes and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.

The Polity Collective is the pinnacle of space-faring civilization. Academic and insightful, its dominion stretches from Earth Central into the unfathomable reaches of the galactic void. But when the Polity finally encounters alien life in the form of massive, hostile, crablike carnivores known as the Prador, there can be only one outcome… total warfare.

Chaos reigns as the Polity, caught unawares, struggles to regain its foothold and transition itself into a military society. Starships clash, planets fall, and space stations are overrun, but for Jebel Krong and Moria Salem, two unlikely heroes trapped at the center of the action, this war is far more than a mere clash of cultures, far more than technology versus brute force… this war is personal.

Epic in scope, unrelenting in action, delivers the blistering battles and astounding literary pyrotechnics that fans of Neal Asher, author of and have come to expect. is Asher's latest and most shocking excursion into the Polity's universe of over-the-top violence and explosive action. Asher delivers a vivid, visceral, brilliantly intense space opera that you won't soon forget.