Series
Second Foundation Trilogy
David Brin, Greg Bear & Gregory Benford · 3 novels · 1 short story · 1997–2006
The Second Foundation Trilogy is a set of prequels to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, authorized by his estate and written after his death by three different science-fiction authors: Foundation's Fear (Gregory Benford), Foundation and Chaos (Greg Bear), and Foundation's Triumph (David Brin). Set before Asimov's own novels, it fills in the era of Hari Seldon's founding of psychohistory and the Foundations, within the wider foundation-universe Asimov created.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Second Foundation Trilogy 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.
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By decade
- 1990s3
- 2000s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
3 authors
reads like:science fictionartificial intelligencegalactic scalefar futuremysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Foundation's Feardarkest · most intense
- Foundation and Chaosbrightest
- Foundation's Triumphcalmest