Foundation — Reading Order
by Isaac Asimov
A mathematician predicts the fall of a galactic empire and creates a Foundation to shorten the coming dark age. The cornerstone of science fiction.
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1951
Hari Seldon establishes the Foundation on a remote planet to preserve knowledge as the Galactic Empire crumbles.
Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov · 1952
The Foundation faces two threats — the dying Empire's last general, and the Mule, a mutant who can control emotions.
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1953
The Mule searches for the mysterious Second Foundation while the First Foundation tries to destroy it.
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov · 1982
Five hundred years on, a councilman suspects the Seldon Plan is being manipulated — and sets out to find who's behind it.
Foundation and Earth
Isaac Asimov · 1986
Trevize searches for Earth, the forgotten origin world of humanity, to understand why he chose as he did.