Cover for Asimov's Foundation's Edge
Foundation's Edge is a novel by Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. It was written thirty years after the Foundation trilogy, in 1982, due to pressure by fans on Asimov to write another, and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher. It was his first entry in the best-sellers list, after 262 books and 44 years of writing.
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This article, Foundation's Edge, contains spoilers. Be forewarned, plot and/or ending details follow.
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Plot
Golan Trevize, a Councilman with an unusual intuition, questions whether the Second Foundation, which is thought to be extinct, is still controlling events. Trevize then brazenly attacks Harla Branno, the Mayor of Terminus policies in a Council meeting, in which he is arrested for treason and removed. She orders him to leave Terminus in order to search for the Second Foundation. As a cover, he is to be accompanied by one Janov Pelorat, a professor of Ancient History, who is searching for Earth, the lost world of human origin.
Simultaneously, on the world of Trantor, Stor Gendibal, a young but rising intellect in the Second Foundation hierarchy, discovers a secret he reveals to the current First Speaker -- that the Seldon Plan, which the Second Foundation dilligently protects and furthers along, is controlled by an organization more powerful than the Second Foundation. Gendibal is then sent out in space to track Trevize and to determine the goals of the "Anti-Mules."