> 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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