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The Foundation Trilogy
The Foundation Trilogy
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Three volume set
This unique three-volume edition is introduced by leading economist and Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman, while the 21 startling, futuristic artworks have been created by talented British illustrator Alex Wells, who also illustrated the sell-out Folio edition of I, Robot.
About the Illustrator
Alex Wells is a British illustrator living and working in Brighton. Wells works with clients around the world, on advertising and editorial commissions, including Pepsi, Apple, Sony, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. The Foundation Trilogy was Wells’s first Folio Society commission and he has since worked on I, Robot.
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About the Illustrator
Alex Wells is a British illustrator living and working in Brighton. Wells works with clients around the world, on advertising and editorial commissions, including Pepsi, Apple, Sony, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. The Foundation Trilogy was Wells’s first Folio Society commission and he has since worked on I, Robot.
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About the Illustrator
Alex Wells is a British illustrator living and working in Brighton. Wells works with clients around the world, on advertising and editorial commissions, including Pepsi, Apple, Sony, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. The Foundation Trilogy was Wells’s first Folio Society commission and he has since worked on I, Robot.
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About the Illustrator
Alex Wells is a British illustrator living and working in Brighton. Wells works with clients around the world, on advertising and editorial commissions, including Pepsi, Apple, Sony, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. The Foundation Trilogy was Wells’s first Folio Society commission and he has since worked on I, Robot.
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About the Illustrator
Alex Wells is a British illustrator living and working in Brighton. Wells works with clients around the world, on advertising and editorial commissions, including Pepsi, Apple, Sony, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. The Foundation Trilogy was Wells’s first Folio Society commission and he has since worked on I, Robot.
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About the Illustrator
Alex Wells is a British illustrator living and working in Brighton. Wells works with clients around the world, on advertising and editorial commissions, including Pepsi, Apple, Sony, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. The Foundation Trilogy was Wells’s first Folio Society commission and he has since worked on I, Robot.
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Isaac Asimov is one of the great names of science fiction. He published more than 500 works, including the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Foundation Trilogy (1951–3; Folio edition 2012, 2021), The Gods Themselves (1972) and The Bicentennial Man (1976). He was born in Petrovichi, Russia, in 1920 and grew up in New York City. He studied at Columbia University, where he gained his MA and PhD in biochemistry. In between completing his studies he served with the US Naval Air Experimental Station during the Second World War. He later became a professor in biochemistry and published academic works, including Inside the Atom (1956), The Human Brain (1964) and Views of the Universe (1981). In 1987 he was awarded the SFWA Grand Master Award and in 1997 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He died in 1992 in New York City.
Paul Krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics and op-ed columnist for the New York Times. Krugman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008. As well as published articles in Fortune, Newsweek, The New Republic and the New York Times Magazine, Krugman is the author of a number of books, including The Return of Depression Economics (2008) and End this Depression Now! (2013).