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Dead Hand

(aka: The General)

Cover Notes

The General tells how the Galactic Empire, now well into its collapse but led by skilled General Bel Riose, launches an attack against the Foundation. The Empire still retains far more resources and personnel than the Foundation and Riose is willing to use that advantage to its fullest. Devers, a native of the Foundation, intercepts a message that summarizes the General's doings, and escapes to Trantor, trying to see the emperor and show him the message. He fails and is nearly killed, but the emperor finds out anyway. In the end, the emperor decides that Riose is a threat to his status and to the balance of the Empire and has him executed.

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Publication History

Publication history in print:

• Dead Hand (aka: The General) (published in Astounding Science Fiction (Apr, 1945) magazine in 1945)

• Dead Hand (aka: The General) (published in Foundation And Empire (aka: The Man Who Upset the Universe) omnibus by Gnome Press in 1952)

• The General (published in 1952)