| Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series |
I'm getting really into reading second hand science fiction from the 1950s onwards. I read a few (but nowhere near all) of the Foundation series as a child, and I remember liking them a lot. Stolen from Wikipedia as well as other online sources, here is a list of the books in The Foundation series in Asimov's suggested reading order:
| Year | Title | Notes | |
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1950 | I, Robot | Robot short stories. First collection, which were all included in The Complete Robot, though it also contains binding text (Mind and Iron), no longer in The Complete Robot. |
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1964 | The Rest of the Robots | Robot short stories. This collection isn't recommended, as the stories appear in The Complete Robot as well. |
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1982 | The Complete Robot | Robot short stories. Collection of Asimov stories written between 1940 and 1976. |
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1986 | Robot Dreams | Robot short stories. Anthologized in a book with the same title. |
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1990 | Robot Visions | Robot short stories. Anthologized in a book with the same title. This collection contains Mirror Image, which is referenced in The Robots Of Dawn and occurs after The Naked Sun. |
| 1992 | The Positronic Man | Robot novel based on Asimov's short story The Bicentennial Man, co-written by Robert Silverberg. | |
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1954 | The Caves of Steel | Robot novel. |
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1957 | The Naked Sun | Robot novel. |
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1983 | The Robots of Dawn | Robot novel. |
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1985 | Robots and Empire | Robot novel. |
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1993 | Isaac Asimov's Caliban | Caliban trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen. These three books were quite hard to get, as they're no longer for sale. |
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1994 | Isaac Asimov's Inferno | Caliban trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen. These three books were quite hard to get, as they're no longer for sale. |
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1996 | Isaac Asimov's Utopia | Caliban trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen. These three books were quite hard to get, as they're no longer for sale. |
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1951 | The Stars, Like Dust | Galactic Empire series. |
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1952 | The Currents of Space | Galactic Empire series. |
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1950 | Pebble in the Sky | Galactic Empire series. |
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1988 | Prelude to Foundation | Foundation novel. |
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1993 | Forward the Foundation | Foundation novel. Finished by Asimov's wife after his death from unfinished work. Combines a series of short stories: "Forward the Foundation", became Part I, "Eto Demerzel". "Cleon the Emperor" became Part II, "Cleon I", and "The Consort" became Part III, "Dors Venabili". Also includes "Wanda Seldon" and "Epilogue". |
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1951 | Foundation | Foundation trilogy. |
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1952 | Foundation and Empire | Foundation trilogy. |
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1953 | Second Foundation | Foundation trilogy. |
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1997 | Foundation's Fear | Second Foundation trilogy by Gregory Benford. The general concensus seems to be that this book isn't very good, but the other two are worth reading. Perhaps skip this one (although the other two will make less sense unless you read a plot synopsis of this book). |
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1998 | Foundation and Chaos | Second Foundation trilogy by Greg Bear. |
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1999 | Foundation's Triumph | Second Foundation trilogy by David Brin. |
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1982 | Foundation's Edge | Final chronological Foundation books. |
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1986 | Foundation and Earth | Final chronological Foundation books. |
Next step, read them.
Update: this amazon list is also useful as it has a guide to the short story books and how they overlap, as well as a bunch more robot books written by other authors.
Update: this Foundation Series timeline is useful too.
Update: this page contains a useful list mapping short stories to later Foundation books.
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