{"id":23101,"date":"2024-06-05T18:57:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T22:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23101"},"modified":"2024-06-29T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T00:42:59","slug":"robot-empire-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/robot-empire-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot, Empire &#038; Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an update to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/foundation-2\/\">this<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Asimov&#8217;s <strong>Foundation<\/strong> series is one of my favourites. I read the 7 books he wrote in the series many years ago. I&#8217;ve now reread them, plus the books that others wrote in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Asimov eventually connected his <strong>Foundation<\/strong> stories with the <strong>Galactic Empire<\/strong> series and the <strong>Robot<\/strong> series. I&#8217;ve now read those series too.<\/p>\n<h2>Robot<\/h2>\n<p>Books by Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-caves-of-steel\/\">The Caves of Steel<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1953 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-naked-sun\/\">The Naked Sun<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1956 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-robots-of-dawn\/\">The Robots of Dawn<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1983 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/robots-and-empire\/\">Robots and Empire<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1985 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Books by others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/caliban\/\">Caliban<\/a> by Roger MacBride Allen\n<ul>\n<li>1993 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/inferno-2\/\">Inferno<\/a> by Roger MacBride Allen\n<ul>\n<li>1994 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/utopia\/\">Utopia<\/a> by Roger MacBride Allen\n<ul>\n<li>1996 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mirage-2\/\">Mirage<\/a> by Mark W. Tiedemann\n<ul>\n<li>2000 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/chimera\/\">Chimera<\/a> by Mark W. Tiedemann\n<ul>\n<li>2000 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/aurora-2\/\">Aurora<\/a> by Mark W. Tiedemann\n<ul>\n<li>2002 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/have-robot-will-travel\/\">Have Robot, Will Travel<\/a> by Alexander C. Irvine\n<ul>\n<li>2004 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/i-robot-to-protect\/\">I, Robot: To Protect<\/a> by Mickey Zucker Reichert\n<ul>\n<li>2011 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/i-robot-to-obey\/\">I, Robot: To Obey<\/a> by Mickey Zucker Reichert\n<ul>\n<li>2013 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/i-robot-to-preserve\/\">I, Robot: To Preserve<\/a> by Mickey Zucker Reichert\n<ul>\n<li>2016 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Galactic Empire<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-stars-like-dust\/\">The Stars, Like Dust<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1951 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-currents-of-space\/\">The Currents of Space<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1952 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/pebble-in-the-sky\/\">Pebble in the Sky<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1950 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Foundation<\/h2>\n<p>Books by Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/foundation\/\">Foundation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1951 -&gt; 4.5\/5 (+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/foundation-and-empire\/\">Foundation and Empire<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1952 -&gt; 4.5\/5 (+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/second-foundation\/\">Second Foundation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1953 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/foundations-edge\/\">Foundation&#8217;s Edge<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1982 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/foundation-and-earth\/\">Foundation and Earth<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1986 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/prelude-to-foundation\/\">Prelude to Foundation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1988 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/forward-the-foundation\/\">Forward the Foundation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1993 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Books by others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/foundations-friends\/\">Foundation&#8217;s Friends<\/a> edited by Martin H. Greenberg\n<ul>\n<li>1989 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/foundations-fear\/\">Foundation&#8217;s Fear<\/a> by Gregory Benford\n<ul>\n<li>1997 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/foundation-and-chaos\/\">Foundation and Chaos<\/a> by Greg Bear\n<ul>\n<li>1998 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/foundations-triumph\/\">Foundation&#8217;s Triumph<\/a> by David Brin\n<ul>\n<li>1999 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/pscyhohistorical-crisis\/\">Psychohistorical Crisis<\/a> by Donald Kingsbury&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>2001 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an update to this list. Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Foundation series is one of my favourites. I read the 7 books he wrote in the series many years ago. I&#8217;ve now reread them, plus the books that others wrote in the series. Asimov eventually connected his Foundation stories with the Galactic Empire series and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,28,8],"class_list":["post-23101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-novels","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23101"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23376,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101\/revisions\/23376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}