Foundation’s Edge was published by Doubleday in 1982 and won the Hugo Award. After a three-decade hiatus, Asimov returned to the Foundation universe. Golan Trevize, a member of the Foundation’s governing council, is expelled from Terminus and sent on a mission to find the Second Foundation. His journey leads him instead to Gaia — an entire planet that has evolved into a single collective consciousness, where every organism, rock, and drop of water shares a unified awareness.
The novel posed a question that the original trilogy had not addressed: is Seldon’s Plan — which aims to establish a new Galactic Empire — actually desirable? Trevize must choose between three possible futures for humanity: the individualistic Foundation, the psychohistorical manipulation of the Second Foundation, or the collective consciousness of Gaia (Galaxia).
Collecting Foundation’s Edge
First edition (Doubleday, New York, 1982): Boards with dust jacket.
Market values:
- First edition, fine in dust jacket: $50–$150
- Very good in jacket: $20–$50