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In this article, Asimov's books are listed by year (in order of publication within a year, where known) with publisher indicated. They are divided between original works and edited books. Works of fiction are denoted by an asterisk (*) and books for children or adolescents by a dagger (†).
The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.First published as a series of short stories and novellas in 1942–50, and subsequently in three books in 1951–53, for nearly thirty years the series was widely known as The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953).
This is a bibliography of the books written or edited by Isaac Asimov, arranged alphabetically. [1] Asimov was a prolific author, and he engaged in many collaborations with other authors.
Later in life, Asimov synthesized the Robot series into a single coherent "history" that appeared in the extension of the Foundation series. [11] Robot series: Asimov, Isaac (1954). The Caves of Steel. National Geographic Books. ISBN 0-553-29340-0. (first Elijah Baley SF-crime novel) Asimov, Isaac (1957). The Naked Sun. Random House Worlds.
The foreword to Prelude to Foundation contains the chronological ordering of Asimov's science fiction books. Asimov stated that the books of his Robot, Empire, and Foundation series "offer a kind of history of the future, which is, perhaps, not completely consistent, since I did not plan consistency, to begin with."
The Robot Series is a series of thirty-seven science fiction short stories and six novels created by American writer Isaac Asimov, from 1940 to 1995.The series is set in a world where sentient positronic robots serve a number of purposes in society.
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Asimov later integrated them into his all-engulfing Foundation series. Some contortion was required to explain how the robots of the Robot series are almost completely absent from the Galactic Empire novels. In reality, this is because Asimov wrote the original Robot and Foundation short stories as separate series.