Isaac Asimov - On the way to the Academy. Gift book bound in leather

"On the way to the Academy"

The collapse of the great Empire, which united twenty-five million inhabited worlds, is inevitable. This is the conclusion reached by mathematician Gary Seldon, the creator of the science of the future — psychohistory.

To build a new civilization on the ruins of the old one, Seldon and his associates are preparing to create two Academies, one of which will be engaged in preserving the knowledge accumulated by mankind, and the second, secret, will invisibly guide the process of recreating the Empire.

But while the Academies have not yet been created, Seldon has to start intrigues, enter into dubious alliances, sometimes go against his principles to prevent the Empire from falling apart before the deadline...