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Introduction: From Academic Refuge to Political Player When the First Foundation was established on Terminus, its members believed they were simply scholars dedicated to preserving knowledge through the Encyclopedia Galactica. The first Seldon Crisis shattered this illusion, revealing that the Foundation's true destiny was far more ambitious: to
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Echoes Across Eighty Years: Why We Still Read Foundation In 1942, a 22-year-old published a story in Astounding Science Fiction about the collapse of a Galactic Empire. World War II was underway, the atomic bomb had not yet been born, computers were theoretical, and humanity had not launched its first
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The Other End of the Galaxy: Lifting the Veil Across the first three stages of the Foundation series, we witness the First Foundation grow from a peripheral scholarly institution into a regional power, and we endure the “black swan” of the Mule’s blow to the Seldon Plan. Yet one
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The first two phases of the Foundation series show the Seldon Plan working flawlessly: through religion and economics, the Foundation grows from a remote frontier world into a regional power, and each Seldon Crisis resolves exactly as predicted. Psychohistory seems capable of forecasting history; the future of human civilization appears
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In the first article, we explored how Hari Seldon used psychohistory to foresee the collapse of the Galactic Empire and established the First Foundation as civilization’s seed. But foreseeing the future is only the first step; how to survive and grow amid the empire’s ruins is the Foundation’
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Introduction: An Immortal Monument in Science Fiction Literature In the vast galaxy of science fiction literature, Isaac Asimov's Foundation series shines like a brilliant star, illuminating the imaginative worlds of countless readers. This epic masterpiece spanning thousands of years of history and covering the entire galaxy not only
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引言:科幻文学史上的不朽丰碑 在科幻文学的浩瀚星河中,艾萨克·阿西莫夫的《基地》系列如同一颗璀璨的恒星,照亮了无数读者的想象世界。这部横跨数千年历史、涵盖整个银河系的史诗巨作,不仅重新定义了太空歌剧的叙事方式,更以其对人类文明演进的深刻洞察,成为科幻文学中最具影响力的作品之一。《基地》系列最初于1942年至1950年间以短篇小说形式在《惊奇科幻》杂志上连载,后来被整合成三部曲:《基地》(Foundation)、《基地与帝国》(Foundation and Empire)和《第二基地》(Second Foundation)。1966年,这个三部曲在世界科幻大会上击败了《魔戒》,获得"雨果奖最佳系列小说奖"——这是该奖项历史上唯一一次颁发给系列作品的特例,足见其地位之崇高。 创作背景:从罗马帝国到银河帝国 阿西莫夫创作《基地》系列的灵感来源于爱德华·吉本的历史巨著《罗马帝国衰亡史》。1941年,年仅21岁的阿西莫夫在纽约地铁上与编辑约翰·W·坎贝尔讨论故事创意时,坎贝尔建议他将罗马帝国的兴衰史投射到未来的银河帝国上。这个建议点燃了阿西莫夫的创作激情。