The Plan Disrupted: Foundation and Empire (1952) Literary Analysis The Plan Disrupted: Foundation and Empire (1952) Exploring the brilliant second installment of Isaac Asimov’s epic, where the decaying Empire shows its dying strength, and an unpredictable mutant shatters the certainty of psychohistory. If the first Foundation novel was about the triumph of intellect and mathematical inevitability over barbarism, the 1952 …