Foundation Series

From Citizendium
Revision as of 23:18, 4 February 2009 by imported>Hayford Peirce (put a hyphen into the first link)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
This editable Main Article is under development and subject to a disclaimer.

The Foundation Series is a series of science-fiction novellas and novels originated by the American science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. The first of the Foundation stories appeared in John W. Campbell's "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1942. Although all of the first stories were written as stand-alone efforts, many of them were later compiled into collections published as novels. The series won a one-time Hugo Award in 1966 as being the greatest science-fiction series of all time. The original novellas were collected as "The Foundation Trilogy" starting in 1951. Asimov continued the series, beginning with "Foundations Edge" in 1982. Since Asimov's death in 1992, the series has been continued by authors such as Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and David Brin.