The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov [BOOK CLUB EDITION / 1971]

The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov [GALACTIC EMPIRE #2]

BOOK CLUB EDITION [1971] DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY INC. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket has a sealed tear at top of spine and another atop fold of rear panel; otherwise in excellent cosmetic shape with very little wear.

Book itself is like new; cover is pristine and pages are clean, untanned and unmarked. 

The second book in the Galactic Empire series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Foundation series, by one of history's most influential writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov

Trantor had extended its rule over half the Galaxy, but the other half defied its authority, defending their corrupt fiefdoms with violence and repression. On the planet Florina, the natives labored as slaves for their arrogant masters on nearby Sark. But now both worlds were hurtling toward a cataclysmic doom, and only one man knew the truth--a slave unaware of the secret knowledge locked inside his own brain.

Rik had once been a prominent scientist until a psychic probe erased all memories of his past. Now he was a humble laborer in the kyrt mills of Florina. Then the memories began to return, bringing with them the terrible truth about the future--a truth that his masters on Sark would kill to keep secret . . . even at the cost of their own survival.  - Bookshop Apocalypse.