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The epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume (and the blessing of the Asimov estate). Brilliant robot leader R. Daneel Olivaw is about to begin the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to Star's End, until he faces a deadly threat - from one of his own kind. A rebellion is stirring, and there's only one hope: a young woman with awesome psychic abilities who can join man and robot in a quest for common freedom, or mutual destruction. Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume. With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to Star's End is about to begin. But the mission's brilliant robot leader, R. Daneel Olivaw, has discovered a potential enemy far deadlier- and closer - than he ever imagined.

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Bio of Greg Bear

Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California, on August 20th, 1951, to Wilma M. and Dale F. Bear. His father was in the navy, and by the time he was twelve years old, he had traveled to Japan, the Philippines and Alaska, as well as various parts of the United States. At age 14, he began submitting pieces to magazines and at 15 he sold his first story to Robert Lowndes' Famous Science Fiction. It would be five years before he sold another piece, but by 23 he was selling stories regularly. Bear finished his first novel at 19, but didn't sell it till 13 years later. The first novel he did sell was Hegira. In 1983, Arkham House published his first collection of short fiction, The Wind From a Burning Woman. A second collection, Tangents, was published by Warner Books in August of 1989. In 1983, Bear was nominated for the Nebula Award for his short story, Petra. In 1984, Hardfought and Blood Music won the Nebula Awards for best novella and novelette; Blood Music went on to win the Hugo Award. The novel version of that story, also called Blood Music, won the Prix Apollo in France and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1987, Tangents won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best short story. Moving Mars won the 1994 Nebula for best novel. Darwin's Radio was awarded the Nebula in 2001. Both Dinosaur Summer and Darwin's Radio have been awarded the Endeavour for best novel published by a Northwest science fiction author. Bear's novels have been translated into 17 different languages. A short story, Dead Run, was adapted by Alan Brennert for the second Twilight Zone television show. The White Horse Child appeared in 1993 as a CD-ROM multi-media presentation from eBook. Bear also did freelance work, covering the Voyager planetary encounters for the San Diego Union. He's written articles on film for the Los Angeles Times. Between 1979 and 1982 he reviewed books for the San Diego Union Book Review supplement. Opinion pieces have been published in New sday and other journals and newspapers around the world. Bear frequently lectured at San Diego City Schools, acting as a roving teacher and conducting short classes on ancient history, the history of science, and science fiction/fantasy. Bear co-edited the Forum of the Science Fiction Writers of America for two years with his wife. And for two more years, acted as chairman of the SFWA Grievance Committee, then served as Vice President of SFWA for a year, and President for two years. He served on the National Citizens Advisory Council on Space Policy, a private group consisting of scientists, military specialists, space scientists and engineers, astronauts, and writers. He is also a consultant with the Sigma Group, which has advised Sandia National Laboratories, as well as Microsoft and other software companies. He has consulted for the U.S. Army and the CIA on security matters in the wake of 9/11/2001. And in 2000, Bear lectured at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, on the nature and future of crime and criminal justice. Bear is also an illustrator and his work has appeared on Galaxy, Fantasy and Science Fiction and Vertex, and books both hardcover and paperback. He was a founding member of ASFA, the Association of Science Fiction Artists.

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Imprint

HarperCollins

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893.67 KB

Number of Pages

416

eBook ISBN

9780061149542

Excerpt from: Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear

The centuries recede, and the legend of Hari Seldon grows: the brilliant man, wise man, sad man who charted the course of the human future in the old Empire. But revisionist views prosper, and cannot always be easily dismissed. To understand Seldon, we are sometimes tempted to refer to apocrypha, myths, even fairy tales from those distant times. We are frustrated by the contradictions of incomplete documents and what amount to hagiographies.

This we know without reference to the revisionists: that Seldon was brilliant, Seldon was key. But Seldon was neither saint nor divinely inspired prophet, and of course, he did not act alone. The most pervasive myths involve...

-- Encyclopedia Galactica,
117th Edition, 1054 F.E.

Hari Seldon stood in slippered feet and a thick green scholar's robe on the enclosed parapet of an upperside maintenance tower, looking from an altitude of two hundred meters over the dark aluminum and steel surface of Trantor. The sky was quite clear over this Sector tonight, only a few vague clouds scudding before nacreous billows and sheets of stars like ghostly fire.

Beneath this spectacle, and beyond the ranks of gently curving domes, obscured and softened by night, lay a naked ocean, its floating aluminum covers pulled aside across hundreds of thousands of hectares. The revealed sea glowed faintly, as if in response to the sky. He could not remember the name of this sea: Peace, or Dream, or Sleep. All the hidden oceans of Trantor had such ancient names, nursery names to soothe. The heart of the Empire needed soothing as much as Hari; soothing, not sooth.