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Described as 'massively, massively influential series of novels' that was 'directly inspired by Gibbon.' Part of a trilogy discussed as modeling the decline of a galactic empire on the fall of Rome.

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Mentioned as the second book in Asimov's Foundation trilogy, where 'Harry Seldon's reading of history turns out to go wrong' with the emergence of the Mule character.

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Listed as the third novel in Asimov's Foundation trilogy that was inspired by Gibbon's work on the fall of Rome.

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Mentioned as a famous example of using historical patterns to predict the future, featuring character Harry Seldon whose predictions hold for centuries