Ashu's Online Notes

Isaac Asimov

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Robot–Empire–Foundation Reading Order

Robots

  1. I, Robot / The Complete Robot
    • The Bicentennial Man (novella) (1976)

Spacers / Robots

  1. Mother Earth (short story) (1949)
  2. The Caves of Steel (1954)
  3. The Naked Sun (1957)
  4. Mirror Image (short story) (1972)
  5. The Robots of Dawn (1983)
  6. Robots and Empire (1985)

Between Robots and Empire

  • Caliban, Inferno, Utopia by Roger MacBride Allen (1992/1993/1996)

Empire (optional)

  1. The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
  2. The Currents of Space (1952)
  3. Pebble in the Sky (1950)
  4. Blind Alley (short story) (1958)

Foundation

  1. Foundation (1951)
  2. Foundation and Empire (1952)
  3. Second Foundation (1953)
  4. Foundation’s Edge (1982)
  5. Foundation and Earth (1986)
  6. Prelude to Foundation (1988)
  7. Forward the Foundation (1993)

Outside the timeline

  • The End of Eternity (1955), retroactively linked to the universe in Foundation and Earth.
  • Nemesis (1989), loosely connected to the early pre-Spacer era.

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