HomePage | Isaac Asimov | RecentChanges | Preferences You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project Being the first volume of /The Foundation Series, it is also one of two prequels to the Foundation Trilogy. For the first time Isaac Asimov chronicles the life of [/Hari Seldon]?, the man who laid the framework for the grandest project humanity has ever attempted. The story takes place on /Trantor during the reign of [/Emperor Cleon I]?. Hari is pursued by powerful enemies and the future of /Psychohistory? is at risk.