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It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation. From the Paperback edition.

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PublisherDoubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-100385233132

ISBN-139780385233132

eBay Product ID (ePID)1553647

Product Key Features

Book TitlePrelude to Foundation

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / General

Publication Year1988

IllustratorDifate, Vincent, Yes

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorIsaac Asimov

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight30.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN87-033086

Dewey Edition20

Age LevelTrade

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisIt is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation. From the Paperback edition.

Lc Classification NumberPs3551.S5p7 1988