Re:Apple confirms TV series order of Asimov’s Foundation
by thinkingkong on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:58PM
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Neat! Do you have a link to the recommended order?
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Re:Apple confirms TV series order of Asimov’s Foundation
by tunesmith on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:20PM
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Here's the order I read them in:
I, Robot (1950)
Foundation (1951)
Foundation and Empire (1952)
Second Foundation (1953)
The Caves Of Steel (1954)
The Naked Sun (1957)
The Robots Of Dawn (1983)
Foundation’s Edge (1982)
Foundation and Earth (1986)
Robots And Empire (1985)
The End of Eternity (1955)
I haven't actually finished the final two because it took me a while to find Robots And Empire. I'll have to reread from the beginning.Here’s Asimov’s recommended order. This one is pretty much chronological for characters, I think, which would spoil some narrative twists. Kind of like how watching the Star Wars prequels first would spoil The Empire Strikes Back.
Either The Complete Robot (1982) *or* I, Robot (1950)
The Caves Of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots Of Dawn
Robots And Empire
The Currents Of Space (1952)
The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
Pebble In The Sky (1950)
Prelude To Foundation (1988)
Forward the Foundation (1993)
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation’s Edge
Foundation and Earth
And here is an Expanded Chronological order, which includes books written by other authors after Asimov died: I, Robot
The Rest of the Robots (1964)
The Complete Robot (1982)
Robot Dreams (1986)
Robot Visions (1990)
The Positronic Man (1992) (co-written by Robert Silverberg)
Mother Earth (1948) (minor inconsistencies)
The Caves Of Steel
The Naked Sun
Mirror Image (1972)
The Robots of Dawn
Mirage (Mark W. Tiedemann) (2000)
Chimera (Mark W. Tiedemann) (2001)
Aurora (Mark W. Tiedemann) (2002)
Have Robot, Will Travel (Alexander C. Irvine) (2005)
Robots And Empire
Caliban (Roger MacBride Allen) (1993)
Inferno (Roger MacBride Allen) (1994)
Utopia (Roger MacBride Allen) (1996)
The Stars, Like Dust
The Currents Of Space
Pebble In The Sky
Prelude To Foundation
Foundation’s Fear (Gregory Benford) (1997)
Forward the Foundation (MINUS the final section of the epilogue)
Foundation and Chaos (Greg Bear) (1998)
Foundation’s Triumph (David Brin) (1999)
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation’s Edge
Foundation and Earth
The End Of Eternity (not really in order apparently, kind of in its own time)
Nemesis (1989) (not really in order, kind of on its own)
I got these lists from somewhere online years back, I think a stackoverflow site, but I'd avoid them because they also talk about spoilers even in listing the names of the books.
Re:Apple confirms TV series order of Asimov’s Foundation
by mattweinberg on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:51PM
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Many people (including me) think it’s best to start with the Foundation core set - Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. Then you can move to the Robots Series - Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, and Robots of Dawn. Then circle back to the Foundation sequels, which ties them together a bit. It's important not to read Robots and Empire until you read the Foundation series.