Series
Foundation
Isaac Asimov, George Zebrowski, Harry Turtledove & Orson Scott Card · 7 novels · 3 novellas · 3 short stories · 1951–1993
The Foundation series is a science fiction novel series written by American author Isaac Asimov. First published as a series of short stories and novellas in 1942–1950, and subsequently in three novels in 1951–1953, for nearly thirty years the series was widely known as The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953). It won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. Asimov later added new volumes, with two sequels, Foundation's Edge (1982) and Foundation and Earth (1986), and two prequels, Prelude to Foundation (1988) and Forward the Foundation (1993).
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This route follows the story's internal timeline instead of the order the books arrived, which puts the two prequels — published decades after the original trilogy — at the front. The prequels assume knowledge the original novels deliver: they lean on turns those books spend their length setting up. That makes this a second-pass route rather than a first one — read the original run first, then come back and watch it from the beginning.
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
Foundation at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s3
- 1960s0
- 1970s0
- 1980s7
- 1990s3
Shape
7 novels · 3 novellas · 3 short stories
4 authors
reads like:science fictionpolitical intriguegalactic scalefar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 45% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book11 of 13 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Foundation's Edgedarkest
- The Originistbrightest
- Forward the Foundationcalmest
- Foundation and Empiremost intense