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Foundation

Isaac Asimov

Gnome Press, 1951

As the Galactic Empire decays, the mathematician Hari Seldon uses psychohistory, a science that predicts the behaviour of whole populations, to shorten the dark age that will follow it.

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Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote the Foundation stories in the 1940s, and they were gathered as Foundation in 1951, the first book of the trilogy. Seldon’s Foundation is set up to preserve knowledge and steer a thousand years of history. Each crisis it meets is settled less by force than by trade, religion and the control of technology.

In copyright. Gnome Press published Foundation as a book in 1951. Four of its five parts first appeared as stories in Astounding Science Fiction in 1942 and 1944. The copyright was renewed in 1979, and passed to Asimov's estate when he died in 1992.

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The Estate of Isaac Asimov
Public domain in the United States
1 January 2047, 95 years after the book was published (the stories first printed in 1942 and 1944: 1 January 2038 and 2040)
Public domain in Canada
1 January 2063, 70 years after Asimov's death in 1992

The dates are worked out from the publication dates and the authors' deaths. In the United States a book published before 1978 is protected for 95 years after publication, and a later one for 70 years after its author's death; in Canada a book is protected for 70 years after its author's death. Protection runs to the end of the year, so a book enters the public domain on 1 January.