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By Donald E. Palumbo

A prolific writer, Isaac Asimov is such a lot well-liked for his technological know-how fiction, together with his number of brief tales I, Robot and his robotic, Empire and beginning sequence novels. whereas each one of those narratives happens in a special fictional universe, Asimov asserted on the finish of his profession that he had, together with his final robotic and starting place novels, unified them into one coherent metaseries.
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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