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An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries

By Donald E. Palumbo

Book information

Publisher
McFarland & Company
Year
2016
ISBN
0786498234, 9780786498239
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1487661 bytes)
Series
Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy; 51
Pages
196\195
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-01-20 15:21:07

Description

A prolific author, Isaac Asimov is most admired for his science fiction, including his collection of short stories I, Robot and his Robot, Empire and Foundation series novels. While each of these narratives takes place in a different fictional universe, Asimov asserted at the end of his career that he had, with his last Robot and Foundation novels, unified them into one coherent metaseries. This reference work identifies and describes all of the characters, locales, artifacts, concepts and institutions in Asimov's metaseries. Mimicking the style of The Encyclopedia Galactica, the fictional compendium of all human knowledge that features prominently in the Foundation series, this encyclopedia is an invaluable companion to Asimov's science fiction oeuvre.

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