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Written by Isaac Asimov
A short story in the Foundation Trilogy series
Part 3 of the Novel Foundation.
Cover Notes
Set twenty years before "The Big and the Little", the story features a Foundation agent operating undercover as a Trader. The agent is sent to try to free another agent who has been imprisoned for illegally selling his gadgets on a world that has outlawed trade with the Foundation. The Foundation agent is able to trick the world's leader into using a Foundation transmutation device to manufacture gold, then blackmails the leader into dropping the ban on trade with the Foundation (and freeing the imprisoned agent).
Publication History
This story is contained in:
- Astounding Science Fiction magazine edited by John W Campbell - published October, 1944 by Street And Smith
Categories: Authors Isaac Asimov ! Series Foundation Trilogy
