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The sequels · about 500 years after the Foundation

Foundation's Edge

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Asimov returns to the saga 30 years later with a new mystery

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Not required. It's left out of the main story but is part of the full chronological order.

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Quick recap

Nearly 500 years after Seldon, Councilman Golan Trevize suspects the Second Foundation still exists and is sent away by Mayor Harla Branno on a secret mission to find it. He brings along the historian Janov Pelorat, who is looking for Earth, humanity's legendary home world. On Trantor, Speaker Stor Gendibal senses another force tampering with the plan. Trevize and Pelorat reach Gaia, a planet where everything shares one mind, and Pelorat falls for Bliss. Branno, Gendibal and Gaia end up at a standoff, and it falls to Trevize to decide the Galaxy's future. He picks Gaia, but walks away wanting to know why Earth was erased from the records.

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What changed on screen

  1. Behind the scenesAsimov's first bestseller

    Foundation's Edge was Asimov's first novel on the New York Times bestseller list, after 262 books. It won the 1983 Hugo and Locus awards.

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  2. Behind the scenesThirty years of pressure

    Fans and editors asked for a sequel for decades. Asimov came back more than 30 years after the trilogy, and admitted the money on offer helped.

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