Prelude to Foundation is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1988 by Nightfall, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1988.

ISBN 9780593159972

Ebook ISBN 9780553900958

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