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A thrilling nonfiction tour of the cosmos that brings the universe down to earth, from one of the alltime masters of science fiction. I have previously written about the first book foundation as well as the. Been rather preoccupied recently with life, but i finally have a moment to catch up on a bit of my book blogging, including discussing the final two books of asimov s classic foundation series, namely, foundation s edge 1982 and foundation and earth 1986. Isaac asimov began depositing his material at boston.
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