Galactic Empire (Isaac Asimov) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation series of novels, the Galactic Empire is an empire consisting of millions of planets settled by humans across the whole Milky Way Galaxy. Its symbol is the Spaceship and Sun logo. Asimov created the Galactic Empire in the 1940s based upon the Roman Empire, as a proposal to John W. Campbell, after having read Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The concept evolved through short stories and novellas in Astounding Science Fiction magazine over the next 20 years, culminating in the publication of the Foundation stories as a trilogy of books.