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Most people don’t realize Foundation is not 3 books but like 14 Caves of Steel Naked Sun Robots of Dawn Robots and Empire Pebble in the Sky Stars, Like Dust Currents of Space Prelude Forward Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundations Edge Foundation and Earth
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True, but Asimov only connected the early robot novels to Foundation late in his life. They were originally separate series that he didn’t intend to fuse. I think the fusion worked well, but the detail is important when understanding the series.
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It’s a reason not to go looking for foreshadowing in the robot novels or for intentional thematic unity between those novels and the early foundation ones. It also means that any reasons given for robots not existing in the Empire in the late Foundation novels are post hoc.
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