"EXCITING AND WELL WRITTEN."
- Publishers Weekly

Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers.  With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Gand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume....

With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to Star's End is about to begin.  But the mission's billiant robot leader, R. Daneel Olivaw, has discovered a potential enemy for deadlier - and closer - than he ever imagined.  One of his own kind.

A freak accident erases the basic commandments in humaniform robot Lodovik Trema's positronic brain.  Now Lodovik's service to humankind is no longer bound by destiny, but by will.  To ensure his loyalty, Daneel has Lodovik secretly reprogrammed.  But can her be trusted?  Now, other robots are beginning to question their mission - and Daneel's strategy.  And stirrings of rebellion, too, are infecting their human counterparts.  Among them is a young woman with awesome psychic abilities, a reluctant leader with the power to join man and robot in a quest for common freedom... or mutual destruction.

THE FOUNDATION SAGA CONTINUES

Read Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, the first novel in this bold new series, and Foundation's Triumph, the concluding volume from David Brin.

HarperPrism

MASTER AND APPRENTICE

The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker... so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight.  Obi-Wan - like his slain Master Qui-Gon - believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force.  But first Obi-Wan must help his undisciplined apprentice, who still bears the scars of slavery, find his own balance.

Dispatched to the mysterious planet of Zonama Sekot, source of the fastest ships in the galaxy, Obi-Wan and Akakin are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue and betrayal.  They sense a disturbance in the Force unlike any they have encountered before.  It seems there are more secrets on Zonama Sekot than meet the eye.  But the search for those secrets will threaten the bond between Obi-Wan and Anakin... and bring the troubled young apprentice face-to-face with his deapest fears - and his darkest destiny.