Prelude to Foundation Author:Isaac Asimov It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if on... more »ly he could read the future.« less