The Academy cycle tells the story of the rise and fall of a huge galactic empire, which was ruled by the deterministic laws of “psychohistory.” Gary Seldon's Great Plan foreshadowed the demise of the empire within five hundred years. This is inevitable. This is an inert process in which the entire population of the Galaxy participates, the actions of individual people in which cannot even be compared with a mosquito bite for an elephant. Gary Seldon founded the Academy, which according to the Plan was to be the center of the revival of the Empire. The period of decline was reduced from the predicted thirty thousand years to one. For a long time, Seldon's Plan was unbreakable. From birth, people were instilled with the idea that the history of the future had already been written by the hand of the great genius of psychohistory. So how could it happen that one person was able to destroy the Plan, subjugating the entire Galaxy in an insignificant period of time? Even Seldon could not have foreseen this... Contents: 1. Prelude to the Academy (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya)2. On the way to the Academy (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya)3. Academy (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya)4. Academy and Empire (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya)5. Second Academy (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya)6. The Academy is on the brink of destruction (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya)7. Academy and the Earth (Translation: Nadezhda Sosnovskaya)