title: Foundation Series/Foundation Bk 1/Foundation and Empire Bk 2/Second Foundation Bk 3/Foundations Edge Bk 4
author: Isaac Asimov
description: Boxed set of four paperback novels from sci-fi's Golden Age.
zlib_text: **Foundation 7 - Forward the Foundation**
  
   **Foundation 7 - Forward the Foundation**
  
  ﻿ Title: Foundation 7 - Forward the Foundation Author: Asimov, Isaac
  
  FORWARD
  
  THE
  
  FOUNDATION
  
    
    
  
   **Foundation 7 - Forward the Foundation**
  
  **PART I - ETO DEMERZEL**
  
    
    
    
  
  DEMERZEL, ETO– . . . While there is no question that Eto Demerzel was the real
  power in the government during much of the reign of Emperor Cleon I,
  historians are divided as to the nature of his rule. The classic
  interpretation is that he was another in the long line of strong and ruthless
  oppressors in the last century of the undivided Galactic Empire, but there are
  revisionist views that have surfaced and that insist his was, if a despotism,
  a benevolent one. Much is made, in this view, of his relationship with Hari
  Seldon though that remains forever uncertain, particularly during the unusual
  episode of Laskin Joranum, whose meteoric rise–
  
  ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA *
  
    
  
  * All quotations from the Encyclopedia Galactica