Scholars have long accepted that Gaal Dornick’s biography of Hari Seldon contains significant lacunae. Where Dornick was not present, or where constraints were put upon him by the official” hagiography” of Seldon-or even where editors and censors in the middle Foundation years suppressed certain suspect passages-we must look deeper into the circumstances, using subtle clues, to understand what actually happened.
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