Asimov's Future History V. 17 by Isaac Asimov

Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dead^Man, March 2011
Published: 2011-03-14T05:00:00+00:00

The Encyclopedists

49-50 F.E. (12117-12118 G.E.)

1.

TERMINUS–... ITS LOCATION (SEE MAP) WAS AN ODD ONE FOR THE ROLE IT WAS CALLED UPON TO PLAY IN GALACTIC HISTORY, AND YET AS MANY WRITERS HAVE NEVER TIRED OF POINTING OUT, AN INEVITABLE ONE. LOCATED ON THE VERY FRINGE OF THE GALACTIC SPIRAL, AN ONLY PLANET OF AN ISOLATED SUN, POOR IN RESOURCES AND NEGLIGIBLE IN ECONOMIC VALUE, IT WAS NEVER SETTLED IN THE FIVE CENTURIES AFTER ITS DISCOVERY, UNTIL THE LANDING OF THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS....

IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT AS A NEW GENERATION GREW, TERMINUS WOULD BECOME SOMETHING MORE THAN AN APPENDAGE OF THE PSYCHOHISTORIANS OF TRANTOR. WITH THE ANACREONIAN REVOLT AND THE RISE TO POWER OF SALVOR HARDIN, FIRST OF THE GREAT LINE OF...

–ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA

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