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Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
Description: Foundation presents the story of Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian who predicts the fall of a galactic empire and establishes a plan to preserve knowledge and shorten the ensuing dark age. The novel follows the efforts to implement this plan across different eras
ISBN: 0553293354
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TORIG-TG · 2013-10-20 · Original thread
This is the premise of the science fiction book, Foundations. The human race is statistically expected to fall into a galaxy-wide "collapse" and a group tries to write a manual/encyclopedia of know how to be placed on every planet.

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