Foundation

BY: Isaac Asimov

A pscho historian, Hari Seldon, figures out using Psycho-history that the empire will fall in 3 centuries. He has a station set up in Terminous, called the Foundation, where his people will make an all powerful encyclopaedia. 50 years later, long after Seldon is dead, they open up his vault and figure out that it wasn't their main purpose to make the book. Throughout the story, a character named Hardin is pushed back and forth between the four kingdom...

I normally do not science fiction since it is less science than fiction hence the genre right? I find it very conflicting to have these two terms put together, everything that is based on scientific theory isn't really science; it becomes a huge joke.
With an elegant fusion of psychohistory and imaginative statistics, the basis of the book revolves on percentages and politics. VERY VERY SEXY POLITICS.
It is a read that requires utmost concentration, not exactly your coffee house sort but you will be drawn into the quick thinking of the edgy characters.