![]() ![]() ![]() The Foundation novels cover about five hundred years, and what happens in them? Well –įoundation begins with Hari Seldon, a man who invents the science of “psychohistory.” The premise of psychohistory is this: you can’t predict what any one person might do, but if you have a large enough group of people, and enough data about them, you can start to make valid predictions. Plus Norby the Mixed-Up Robot goes in there somewhere. His chronology moves from the near-future of the robot stories (early 2000s) to the colonization age (the Elijah Bailey novels, set in the 4700s), the eventually establishment of a Galactic Empire (starting around the year 8000) and, finally, the Foundation books, which begin in the last centuries of the Empire, twenty thousand years or more in the future. Isaac Asimov’s body of work is like the Legend of Zelda series: no matter how different the settings, they can almost all be tinkered together into one gigantic history in which any inconsistencies are erased by the vastness of deep time. ![]()
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