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Second Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

With the First Foundation in ruins, survivors and an alien entity race to locate the rumoured Second Foundation, established to preserve human knowledge. Meanwhile, a fourteen-year-old girl holds a secret that could determine the fate of the galaxy.

Accession 14875 ISBN — Publisher Gnome Press
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