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Prelude to foundation

Prelude to foundation

Book 2020

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,...