Reception
Groff Conklin described Foundation and Empire' as "fine swashbuckling galactic adventure on some extremely hard-headed, scientific and mature social-political thinking." Boucher and McComas, however, panned the volume, declaring that "Anyone with a nodding acquaintance with Gibbon, Breasted, or Prescott will find no new concepts save the utterly incomprehensible ones contained in the author's own personal science of 'psycho-history'."
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