The Foundation Series

It is general knowledge that there are seven books that are actually part of the original Foundation 'trilogy', but not that there are actually eight other books which also help to make up the Foundation series, four of which are the robot novels. Although the stories in these books are not always entirely consistent, Asimov himself stated that they could go together to form a whole story. All of these fifteen books are listed below, in fictional chronological order.

The Robot Short Stories

• The Complete Robot

The Robot Novels

• The Caves of Steel
• The Naked Sun
• The Robots of Dawn
• Robots and Empire

The Empire Novels

• The Stars, Like Dust
• The Currents of Space
• Pebble in the Sky

The Foundation Novels

• Prelude to Foundation
• Forward the Foundation
• Foundation
• Foundation and Empire
• Second Foundation
• Foundation's Edge
• Foundation and Earth