> Absolutely the Foundation series, but you need to read 'em in the correct order. In
> the forward of Prelude, Issac defined the order thusly:
>
> 1. The Complete Robot (1982) and/or I, Robot (1950)
> 2. Caves of Steel (1954)
> 3. The Naked Sun (1957)
> 4. The Robots of Dawn (1983)
> 5. Robots and Empire (1985)
> 6. The Currents of Space (1952)
> 7. The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
> 8. Pebble in the Sky (1950)
> 9. Prelude to Foundation (1988)
> *10. Forward the Foundation (1993)
> 11. Foundation (1951)
> 12. Foundation and Empire 5 (1952)
> 13. Second Foundation 5 (1953)
> 14. Foundation's Edge (1982)
> 15. Foundation and Earth (1986)
>
> # 10 gets an asterisk because it was not on Asimov's original list, having not been
> written yet; from the content, this is the order in which it belongs.
>
> Having previously read all of them in published order, I spent one glorious summer a
> couple of years ago re-reading them all in this order. I recommend it highly. -JW
The End of Eternity, Nemesis, and The Positronic Man are missing from that list; they have some connections to the Foundation series. It has been far too long for me to place them properly.
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