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By Donald E. Palumbo
This reference paintings identifies and describes the entire characters, locales, artifacts, suggestions and associations in Asimov’s metaseries. Mimicking the fashion of The Encyclopedia Galactica, the fictitious compendium of all human wisdom that includes prominently within the origin sequence, this encyclopedia is a useful better half to Asimov’s technological know-how fiction oeuvre.
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