![]() ![]() Campbell to tell him the plot of a new story I was planning to write, and the catch was that I had no plot in mind, not the trace of one. ![]() In that time, I had sold five stories to John Campbell, editor of Astounding, and the fifth story, "Nightfall," was about to appear in the September 1941 issue of file:///E|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Princess%20Delilah/Desktop/Isaac%20Asimov/FoundationTrilogy.html (1 of 9) 12:11:44 PM I was 21 years old, a graduate student in chemistry at Columbia University, and I had been writing science fiction professionally for three years. But on that day, with Europe in flames, and the evil shadow of Adolf Hitler apparently falling over all the world, what was chiefly on my mind was a meeting toward which I was hastening. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was four months in the future. France had fallen, the Battle of Britain had been fought, and the Soviet Union had just been invaded by Nazi Germany. World War II had been raging for two years. ![]() THE STORY BEHIND THE "FOUNDATION" By ISAAC ASIMOV THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY ISAAC ASIMOV Contents Introduction Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation About the author ![]()
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