书名：Prelude to Foundation银河帝国4：基地前奏

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数830-940L 

作者：Isaac Asimov 

出版社名称：Bantam Spectra Books 

出版时间：1920 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780553278392 

商品尺寸：10.7 x 2.8 x 17.5 cm 

包装：平装

页数：434（以实物为准） ★被马斯克用火箭送上太空的科幻神作，讲述人类未来两万年的历史。

★人类历史不容错过的系列小说（Best All-Time Novel Series）——世界SF小说协会，1966年，俄亥俄州

★地球人公认的“科幻圣经”，文艺青年和技术宅的共同挚爱！

★《银河帝国》系列小说，一直被认为是人类想象力的极限，人类有趣迷人的故事，讲述人类未来两万年的历史。

★1977年经典电影《星球大战》，偷取了本书构思。

★2009年卖座电影《阿凡达》，抄袭了本书创意。

★不过，2008年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者克鲁格曼则亲口承认，他的经济学理论来自《银河帝国》的启示。

★出版60年来，本书对人类的太空探索、世界局势、前沿经济学理论、好莱坞电影产生了深远的影响；更随着它的读者成长为各行各业的领袖，而将这种影响渗透到人类文化的方方面面。

媒体评论

“阿西莫夫的《银河帝国》系列光芒万丈。”——埃隆·马斯克

“阿西莫夫是这个时代尤为伟大的阐释者之一。”——卡尔·萨根（著名天文学家）

“女士们，先生们，世界上只有一个艾萨克·阿西莫夫。”——阿瑟·克拉克（著名科幻作家）

“阿西莫夫，一个为世间万物而生的人。”——肯德里克·弗雷泽（著名科学编辑）

“阿西莫夫的作品，干净利落，悬念出彩。”——《纽约时报》

“我们的想象力从此被阿西莫夫左右。”——《卫报》

“世界上从来没有过像他这样的人，而且，我想再也不会有像他这样的人了。”——弗雷德里克·波尔（著名科幻作家）

“我们永远也无法知晓，究竟有多少科学家由于读了阿西莫夫的某一本书、某一篇文章或某一个小故事而触发了灵感，我们也无法知晓，究竟有多少普通百姓因为同样的缘故而对科学事业有了感情。”——卡尔·萨根（著名天文学家）

“阿西莫夫：科幻小说的基石。”——詹姆斯·冈恩（著名科幻学者）

“艾萨克·阿西莫夫不仅是重要的科幻小说作者之一，他还是史上杰出的人物之一。”——本·波瓦（著名科幻作家）

“当你为错过阿西莫夫的书而哭泣时，你也将错过整个宇宙。”——马伯庸（作家）

“阿西莫夫讲了一个很重要的事情，就是我们预先去想象未来，有些事情你可以选择让它发生，有些事情你可以选择不要让它发生。”——蔡康永（知名主持人）

“在互联网时代，我们其实都生活在‘已经发生的未来’之中。为此，我们有必要时常重温阿西莫夫，重温那些澎湃的想象力。”——罗振宇（资深媒体人）

“阿西莫夫是位真正伟大的科幻作家，他的想象，直至今日仍是幻想世界的边疆。”——姚海军（《科幻世界》主编）

The story of our future begins with theFoundation.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Praise for Isaac Asimov and his Foundation series

“A true polymath, a superb rationalist, an exciting and accessible writer in both fiction and nonfiction, Isaac Asimov was simply a master of all he surveyed.”  — Greg Bear

“Asimov served wondrous meals-of-the-mind to a civilization that was starved for clear thinking about the future. To this day, his visions spice our ongoing dinner-table conversation about human destiny.”  — David Brin

“Isaac was still in his teens when I met him, a fan of mine before I was a fan of his. Writing for John W. Campbell back in the famous ‘golden age of science fiction,’ he became one of the founders of our field. With the Robot stories and the Foundation stories, he helped to shape science fiction as we know it.”  — Jack Williamson

“I grew up on the ABC’s of science fiction—Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke. There’s a reason Asimov’s name comes first, and not just because of the alphabet!”  — Janis Ian

“With his fertile imagination, his wit, and his prolific output, Isaac Asimov truly laid the foundation for all future generations of science fiction writers.”  — Kevin J. Anderson

The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE UPCOMING APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall--those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.

Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire . . . the man who holds the key to the future--an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.

艾萨克·阿西莫夫（1920-1992），俄裔美籍作家，被全世界的读者誉为“神一样的人”；美国政府授予他“国家的资源与自然的奇迹”这个独一无二的称号，以表彰他在“拓展人类想象力”上做出的杰出贡献。阿西莫夫是一个全知全能的作家，其著作几乎覆盖人类生活的一切方面，上天下海、古往今来、从恐龙到亚原子到全宇宙无所不包，从通俗小说到罗马帝国史，从科普读物到远东千年历史，从圣经指南，到科学指南，到两性生活指南，每一部著作都朴实、严谨而又充满幽默风趣的格调，为了尽情发挥自己诙谐搞笑的天赋，他甚至还写过一本《笑话集》。提出的“机器人学三大法则”是当代机器人学的基本法则，他预言了今天的生物科技，预言了互联网时代的数字图书馆，预言了人类将进行太空殖民。终其一生，阿西莫夫引以为豪的则是：《银河帝国》系列小说。

Isaac Asimovbegan his Foundation Series at the age of twenty-one, not realizing that it would one day be considered a cornerstone of science fiction. During his legendary career, Asimov penned per 470 books on subjects ranging from science to Shakespeare to history, though he was most loved for his award-winning science fiction sagas, which include the Robot, Empire, and Foundation series. Named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Asimov entertained and educated readers of all ages for close to five decades. He died, at age of seventy-two, in April 1992.