Description: A retired tailor from the mid-20th Century is accidentally pitched forward into the future. A science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1950. This work is his first novel parts of the Foundation series had appeared from 1942 onwards, in magazines, but Foundation was not published in book form until 1951. The original Foundation books are also a string of linked episodes, whereas this is a complete story involving a single group of characters.