Foundation

When looking into Sci-Fi books that I should have already read, this trilogy kept coming up. It won the Hugo award for “Best Trilogy” - an award created just to give it to this series. It was short, but lived up to the hype. The premise relies on “psychohistory”, a way of mathematically predicting the future. The first book was actually based on a number of short stories and parallels the fall of Rome. I enjoyed the series, but not enough to read the other 11 books in the series.