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Take a deep dive into the power of words and mindset with Isaac Asimov's thought-provoking short story "S As In Zebatinsky", expertly narrated by Mike Vendetti. Discover how the smallest of changes can create a ripple effect in your life, leading to extraordinary outcomes.

Die Anfänge der Foundation. Man schreibt das Jahr 12020. Von der Hauptstadt Trantor aus regiert Cleon I. über sein gigantisches Sternenreich. Doch das Imperium zeigt erste Risse, und der Imperator weiß, dass seine Herrschaft bedroht ist. Dunkel und unheilschwanger liegt eine ungewisse Zukunft vor ihm, denn der Zerfall, so behaupten es alle Prognosen, lässt sich nicht aufhalten. Nicht einmal die neuste Wissenschaft, die Psychohistorik, kann etwas gegen den drohenden Untergang ausrichten. Die Vorgeschichte zur erfolgreichen Apple TV+-Serie "Foundation".

Der Grundstein der Foundation. Trantor im Jahr 12020: Das Zentrum der Galaxis wird regiert von Imperator Cleon I. Hari Seldon, ein junger Wissenschaftler, stellt erstmals seine Theorie der Psychohistorik vor, die auf der Basis mathematischer, soziologischer und statistischer Methoden präzise Vorhersagen über das Verhalten großer Gruppen von Menschen – Imperien beispielsweise – möglich macht. Cleon I. wird darauf aufmerksam und will Seldons Hilfe. Insbesondere der erste Minister Cleons, Eto Demerzel, scheint gar nicht begeistert von diesem Vorhaben zu sein.

La Fundación yace en ruinas, arrasada por la inteligencia mutante del Mulo. Sin embargo, se rumorea que Hari Seldon, el científico que lo inició todo, ha establecido una Segunda Fundación al otro lado de la galaxia, cuya ubicación exacta es un secreto guardado desde hace tiempo. Obligada a revelar su existencia, la Segunda Fundación deberá enfrentarse a la voluntad destructora del Mulo, con el añadido de que los supervivientes de la Primera Fundación también quieren acabar con ella…

Desde hace doce mil años, la humanidad prospera en una galaxia gobernada por el Imperio desde la majestuosa ciudad de Trántor. Todos creen que la estabilidad durará para siempre hasta que Hari Seldon predice, mediante su revolucionaria teoría de la psicohistoria, un futuro de ruina y destrucción. Desterrado al planeta Terminus, Seldon establecerá una colonia con las mentes más brillantes del Imperio, una Fundación que esconde la clave para cambiar el destino de la galaxia.

Guiada por su fundador, el gran psicohistoriador Hari Seldon, la Fundación ha logrado sobrevivir a la amenaza de barbarie de sus planetas vecinos. Pero ahora debe enfrentarse al Imperio, que, pese a su decadencia, sigue siendo la fuerza más poderosa de la galaxia. Y nadie ha podido prever el nacimiento de una extraordinaria criatura llamada el Mulo, una inteligencia mutante dotada de poderes paranormales capaces de convertir al humano más combativo en un dócil esclavo.

Isaac Asimov, known primarily for his science fiction stories, was also a scientist. In cooperation with the Senior Scholastic magazine, he composed this wonderful and fascinating work of historical nonfiction. Twenty-six far-reaching discoveries and the twenty-nine scientists who made them—from Archimedes, who boasted he could move the world, to Goddard, who sent the first liquid-fuel rocket toward space.

There were ten humanoid robots somewhere in the United States, each one carrying a fragment of a TC bomb. TC! The race for sheer horror in bomb-ery had ended there. TC! Total Conversion! The sun was no longer a synonym one could use. Total conversion made the sun a penny candle.

Der dritte Teil von Isaac Asimovs Science-Fiction-Meisterwerk, der "Foundation"-Trilogie. Die Foundation liegt in Trümmern – zerstört von einem mutierten Wesen, das auf die Vernichtung der Menschheit abzielt. Doch es kursieren Gerüchte, dass irgendwo am anderen Ende der Galaxis eine zweite Foundation existiert. Einst von Hari Seldon als Rückversicherung gegründet, um das Wissen der Menschheit zu bewahren.

After a century-long cold war between Us and Them, an agent arrives and informs authorities that robots identical to humans have been developed by Them. Ten are already in America and when they get together, their combined components will trigger a nuclear-level explosion capable of destroying a major American city. The head of U.S. robotics is tasked with finding and destroying them before they can succeed.

¿Qué papel desempeñarán en un futuro más o menos lejano estos extraños mecanismos creados por el hombre casi a su imagen y semejanza? Isaac simov nos brinda aquí unas narraciones que, sin lugar a dudas, moverán a reflexión.

The way we feel about another person or about objects is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object, at all. Often, what we call a "change of heart" comes about sheerly from a change in the many associations which make up our present viewpoint. Now, suppose that these associations could be altered artificially, at the option of the person who was in charge of the process.

Three disparate and suspenseful looks at ourselves in three very different worlds. These engaging short stories by three of the masters of American science fiction literature, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Philip K. Dick, open windows into our psyches, our souls, and our surroundings that presage the world we find ourselves in today. Like episodes of The Twilight Zone, cinematic in their language and characters, the stories connect with our times in surprising ways.

With an introductory biography of the late Isaac Asimov, this classic work gets better. Red and Slim found the two strange little animals the morning after they heard the thunder sounds. They knew that they could never show their new pets to their parents. Enjoy the listen, leave a review and check out our other retro sci-fi books!

Slim and Red decide to train the to small animals Red has captured as a circus act. You can imagine the chagrin of Red's father an important industrialist realizes that the small animals are actually surviving aliens who have traveled to this world to open up an interstellar trade relationship. There are lots of possibilities here, so listen along as Darla Middlebrook transports us to the world of Isaac Asimov.

When Red, a young boy living on a vast country estate owned by his father, a world-renowned industrialist, finds and captures two small and strange-looking animals, he hides them away in an old bird cage in the loft of his father's barn. He has dreams of making big bucks in a circus sideshow featuring the two unusual creatures.

"It all began with my month's layoff between galactic service assignments. I reached Marsport for the ususla three-day stopover. Before landing, I received a spacegram from my wife, Hilda, saying she would stay and wait for me on Earth. So I called Flora and set a date. As I stepped out of the Video Booth, the first whiff of catastrophe nudged itself up to me. Rog Crinton said, 'Red Emergency Alert - come with me. Jack Hawk is dead. The galactic drug menace and his killer is on his way here.'"

When the technology for twisting to other probability patterns was developed, a grateful Earth solved its overcrowding by sending people to live on Earths where plants and animals never got started. Each family could have its own planet, because there was an infinite number of such alt-Earths available, and the computers never assigned the same one twice. Trouble was - someone else had the same idea!

¿Es posible revertir el inevitable final del Universo, o el mundo debe acabar de todas formas? es la pregunta que desde un día del siglo XXI, hasta generaciones y generaciones posteriores en el tiempo, hacen los humanos a los ordenadores.

Las informaciones y comentarios de este ameno e instructivo ensayo conducen al lector por los vericuetos de la creación mitológica griega como si se tratase de una novela de aventuras, comentando la poderosa influencia que los mitos han ejercido en la génesis y evolución del pensamiento humano, con particular énfasis en la formación de las principales lenguas que se hablan en el mundo.