Picked up my copy of Isaac Asimov's Prelude to Foundation just a moment ago and read the introduction by him. And . . . holy crap, that's a heck of a timeline. Here, lemme show you.
- The Complete Robot, '82: 31 shorts, including the entire I, Robot (owned) collection
- The Caves of Steel, '54 – begins robot novels
- The Naked Sun, '57
- The Robots of Dawn, '83
- Robots and Empire, '85
- The Currents of Space, '52 – begins Empire arc
- The Stars, Like Dust—, '51
- Pebble in the Sky, '50
- Prelude to Foundation, '88 (owned) – begins Foundation arc
- Foundation, '51 (owned) – collection of four shorts, and an added introduction
- Foundation and Empire, '52 (owned) – two stories
- Second Foundation, '53 – two stories
- Foundation's Edge, '82
- Foundation and Earth, '83
Cripes.
I NEED MONEY DARNIT [/Michi]
