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Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov

Gnome Press, 1952

The second Foundation book: the Foundation survives an attack by the last great general of the dying Empire, then faces the Mule, a mutant who can bend people's emotions and whom Hari Seldon's plan did not foresee.

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Foundation and Empire gathers two stories first printed in Astounding Science Fiction in the 1940s: “The General” and “The Mule”. It follows Foundation and is followed by Second Foundation.

In copyright. Gnome Press published Foundation and Empire as a book in 1952. Its two parts first appeared as stories in Astounding Science Fiction in 1945. The copyright passed to Asimov's estate when he died in 1992.

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The Estate of Isaac Asimov
Public domain in the United States
1 January 2048, 95 years after the book was published (the stories first printed in 1945: 1 January 2041)
Public domain in Canada
1 January 2063, 70 years after Asimov's death in 1992

The dates are worked out from the publication dates and the authors' deaths. In the United States a book published before 1978 is protected for 95 years after publication, and a later one for 70 years after its author's death; in Canada a book is protected for 70 years after its author's death. Protection runs to the end of the year, so a book enters the public domain on 1 January.