"I migliori racconti di fantascienza pubblicati nel 1953 da autori del prestigio di Fritz Leiber, Walter M. Miller jr, Damon Knight, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Ward Moore, Arthur C. Clark, Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, James Blish, Alfred Blester, Theodore R. Cogdwell, William Morrison, Frederic Bron, Jerome Bixby. 17 racconti di inquietudine, mistero, avventura, paura, sorpresa, scritti nell''anno in cui moriva Stalin, Eisenhower veniva eletto presidente degli Stati Uniti, Elisabetta saliva sul trono d''Inghilterra. "
"Ancora due volumi della serie ""Le grandi storie della fantascienza"", che ripercorrono stavolta il biennio 1955-1956, anni che videro l''istallazione della prima centrale nucleare, dei primi lanci di satelliti nello spazio, quando in tutto il mondo si festeggio il matrimonio di Marilyn Monroe con Arthur Miller. I due volumi antologici comprendono come di regola racconti di autori ""di prima categoria"", veri giganti del genere tra cui: Theodore Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick, Eric Frank Russell, Arthur C. Clarke, e ovviamente lo stesso Isaac Asimov. "
Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they 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 ruinsdestroyed 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 timebut 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 destroyedbefore it destroys them.
