It is about 70 or so years from the conclusion of the first book, and the story talks about the success of the Seldon Plan for the first 300 years after the events in "Foundation".
The Foundation is growing in a sustained, steady, and rapid pace. The people in it are confident in their abilities to fend off anything. They have complete faith that Hari Seldon and his psychohistorians had planned for everything. Everything was going according to plan, until it wasn't. You see, psychohistory was proven to be effective at foreseeing events happening on a galactic scale. It was not so good at predicting individual actions, or in this case, the coming of a powerful individual who would call himself "The Mule". The Foundation had no warning of his coming and were completely helpless against his power.
The Foundation was helpless against the Mule. How could they fend off a mutant of such power, for all they knew he might be one of them? The secret of his true identity made him a dangerous and unpredictable spy. Was the Mule a male? A female? Was he even a person or a group? The Foundation knew nothing except the name "The Mule" and the extreme danger they were in before the Mule's power. They needed help. They needed the Second Foundation.
Now, for some reason, the Mule knew that he would be defeated if the Second Foundation were left untouched and undiscovered. So now both the Foundation and the Mule were in a race to find the secret of the Second Foundation and the first to find them would be the victor.
I think this book is a great feat of literature. The way Asimov describes it, at first seemed, very uninteresting. But he later surprised me with a connection between multiple subjects, in a way that created the interest of "reading till you can't read anymore" or "I can't put the book down." Asimov created an empire, a universe free of boundaries, of things you cannot imagine. He explains his fiction in a logical way, convincing his readers into believing that a universe like this exists.
Recommended Age: 14+
Book Rating: Outstanding
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