Best Foundation series novels

A ranking of Isaac Asimov's novels from the Foundation series.

Foundation and Empire
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Foundation and Empire

(1952)
Foundation and Empire is a novel written by Isaac Asimov that was published by Gnome Press in 1952. It is the second book published in the Foundation series, and the fourth in the in-universe chronology. It takes place in two halv...
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Forward the Foundation
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Forward the Foundation

(1993)
Forward the Foundation is a novel written by Isaac Asimov, published by the author in 1993. It is the second of two prequels to the Foundation series. It is written in much the same style as the original novel Foundation, a novel...
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Foundation
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Foundation

(1951)
Foundation is the first novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). Foundation is a collection of five short stories, which were first published together as a book by Gnome Press in 1951...
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Foundation's Edge
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Foundation's Edge

(1982)
Foundation's Edge is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation series. It was written more than thirty years after the stories of the original Foundation trilogy...
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Prelude to Foundation
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Prelude to Foundation

(1988)
Prelude to Foundation is a science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov. It is one of two prequels of the Foundation series. For the first time, Asimov chronicles the fictional life of Hari Seldon, the man who invented psychohist...
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Second Foundation
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Second Foundation

(1953)
Second Foundation is the third novel published of the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, and the fifth in the in-universe chronology. It was first published in 1953 by Gnome Press. Second Foundation consists of two previously publ...
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Foundation and Earth
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Foundation and Earth

(1986)
Foundation and Earth is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation and chronologically the last in the series. It was published in 1986, four years after the first sequel to the Foundation trilogy,...
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