Literature

27It was a lovely day, neither too warm nor too cold, not too bright nor too gray. Even though the groundskeeping budget had given out years ago, the few straggly…

22″Mr. Bindris,” said Hari Seldon, reaching out his hand to shake the other’s. “I am so glad to be able to see you. It was good of you to agree…

16Raych, Manella, and little Bellis were waiting at the spaceport. The hypership was preparing for liftoff and the three had already checked their baggage. Raych said, “Dad, come along with…

12Las Zenow said with a certain trace of awe in his voice, “I didn’t know you were so friendly with the Emperor, Professor Seldon.” “Why not? He’s a very democratic…

8Like any intellectual, Hari Seldon had made use of the Galactic Library freely. For the most part, it had been done long-distance through computer, but occasionally he had visited it,…

5″Dad,” said Raych with some concern, “you look tired.” “I dare say,” said Hari Seldon, “I feel tired. But how are you?” Raych was forty-four now and his hair was…

Part IVWanda Seldon SELDON, WANDA-… In the waning years of Hari Seldon’s life, he grew most attached to (some say dependent upon) his granddaughter, Wanda. Orphaned in her teens, Wanda…

25Hari Seldon knocked gently with an old-fashioned code and Yugo Amaryl looked up. “Hari, how nice of you to drop around.” “I should do it more often. In the old…

22Yugo Amaryl said, “Here you are again, Dors.” “Sorry, Yugo. I’m bothering you twice this week. Actually you don’t see anyone very often, do you?” Amaryl said, “I don’t encourage…

17The General had had a bad night and so, out of apprehension, had the colonel. They faced each other now-each at a loss. The General said, “Tell me again what…

13″Yes,” said Hari Seldon wearily, “it was a great triumph. I had a wonderful time. I can hardly wait until I’m seventy so I can repeat it. But the fact…

10Seldon strode into Amaryl’s office, unannounced. “Yugo,” he said abruptly, “the session with General Tennar has been postponed.” He seated himself in a rather pettish manner. It took Amaryl his…

6Hari Seldon was fighting off melancholy. He was lectured in turn by Dors, by Raych, by Yugo, and by Manella. All united to tell him that sixty was not old….

Part IIIDors Venabili VENABILI, DORS-The life of Hari Seldon is well encrusted with legend and uncertainty, so that little hope remains of ever obtaining a biography that can be thoroughly…

21Gleb Andorin gazed at Namarti through half-closed eyes. He never liked the man, but there were times when he liked him less than he usually did and this was one…

16Gambol Deen Namarti was not, at even the best of times, noted for his politeness and suavity-and the approaching climax of a decade of planning had left his disposition sour….

13Up and down. Up and down. Up and down. Gleb Andorin watched Gambol Deen Namarti trudging up and down. Namarti was obviously unable to sit still under the driving force…

9We all have our small illusions and Cleon-Emperor of the Galaxy, King of Trantor, and a wide collection of other titles that on rare occasions could be called out in…

6The weather was holding up over the undomed area of the Imperial Palace grounds-warm and sunny. It didn’t often happen. Hari remembered Dors telling him once how this particular area…

3Yet, even so, Hari Seldon could not repress the surge of satisfaction that he felt as he entered his laboratory. How things had changed. It had begun twenty years earlier…