“Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.”

— Isaac Asimov

Part III, The Mayors, section 1; originally published as “Bridle and Saddle” in Astounding (June 1942)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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