SECOND FOUNDATION

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Doubleday edition published 1953

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Information

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Asimov, Isaac, 1920-

Second foundation / Isaac Asimov.

p.         cm.

1.         Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character)—Fiction.         2.         Life on other planets—Fiction.         
3.         Psychohistory—Fiction.         I.         Title.

PS3551.S5 S37 2004                                    2003069134

813/.54 22

Published simultaneously in Canada

eISBN: 978-0-553-90036-1

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