![]() ![]() These three books are thus known collectively as The Foundation Trilogy.Īsimov unsuccessfully tried to end the series at the end of Second Foundation. ![]() These were then collected and published as Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation in the early 1950s by Gnome Press. ![]() The early stories are very closely based on Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Asimov said he did "a little bit of cribbin' from the works of Edward Gibbon" when describing the influence of that work on the Trilogy). The stories vary in length from about 7,000 words to about 50,000 words. The series started as a series of nine short stories, eight of which were published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine (between May 1942 and January 1950) and a ninth, which was written a few years later when the series was first published in book form. Hari Seldon was the founder of the First and Second Foundations and inventor of Psychohistory (cover art for Foundation, by Stephen Youll) ![]()
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