Foundation. Book 1. Айзек Азімов

The first volume in Issac Asimov's world-famous saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series.   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.