The correct order is:
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
You can find them all online for free via internet archive.
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As we witness the fall of the American empire, it's the perfect time to read the Foundation series (by Isaac Asimov)
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Seeing as op is either too lazy to mention this or hasn't actually read the books, Prelude and Forward are actually set before Foundation but contain plot elements which only make sense if you know what happens at the end of Foundation and Earth.
Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth connect several other works into the Foundation series' chronology, these are:
The End of Eternity
I, Robot
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
Pebble in the Sky
There is also The Stars Like Dust, Currents of Space and the short story Blind Alley which are set in the same universe.
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In what world does chronology take precedent over intended reading order in a list of what order to read them?
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I didn't write this and if your reading comprehension is this shit, you probably shouldn't be trying to get through whole books.
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Isn't this you saying that he is lazy or has not read the books because he did not list them chronologically?
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I said he did not provide all information on the preferred reading order either because he is lazy or because he has not read the books.
Like I said: your reading comprehension is garbage and, furthermore, your opinions are shit... absolute shit.
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The vast majority of people don't read books in the chronological order they read them in the intended order, so why would he include unnecessary information on the timeline of the books. You even say in your original post that reading Prelude and Forward before the others wouldn't make sense. Also what opinions did I give? Even if everything I said was wrong they still wouldn't have been opinions they would have been incorrect statements of fact. You seem pretty aggressive about this whole deal, you might wanna chill out.
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Yeah that's why I said to read them at the end. I know they "chronologically" come first, but reading Forward the Foundation at the end of the series is incredibly cathartic and is obviously a meditation on old age and Asimov looking back on his own life.
Yeah they """connect""" still not gonna recommend someone read those all before reading foundation. Ppl should treat them as the stand alones they were meant to be.
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Have you read Foundation's Edge and Foundation & Earth?
The spacer worlds, the legends of robots, Bander and Fallom the enby Solarians and the big (and rather silly IMO) reveal at the end make no sense unless you've read the Elijah Bailey Robot novels.
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I have read them and I understood it fine with only a vague recollection of the robot series. You can just read the wiki summary about Solarians although even that isn't necessary imo. The tie ins are not that interesting imo, and you can get the gist without having to know what exactly the lore of the planets are. I would recommend reading I,Robot but mostly for fun.
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How many Asimov have you read
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I've read his boring science essays in old copies of Fantasy & Science Fiction from the 60s.
I've read one of his detective novels.
I don't know why I put myself through that.
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