
The second trilogy by Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and David Brin, The management and long-term survival of records areĮxplored in some of these novels. "Trantor Falls" by Harry Turtledover (1989) involves a confrontation between the Emperor of the Galaxy and the University, the latter fighting to protect its Library."The Originist" by Orson Scott Card (1989), set prior to the fall of First Galactic Empire and just prior to the death of Hari Seldon, the mathematician who invented psychohistory, involves an independent scholar named Leyel Forska searching through unimaginably old archival records and library data for "the principles of human origin rather than wasting time on the irrelevant search for one particular planet."."Foundation's Conscience" by George Zebrowski (1989) involves a search for visual records of Hari Seldon by the first-person narrator who hopes to secure a place in the 117th edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica.


Asimov provided a bibliographic guide to the series and The series was not written or published in chronological Wife, devises a plan to steer humanity from chaos into a new The Fictional World of Archives The Foundation Novels and stories by Isaac Asimov and FriendsĪsimov's Foundation series is set in the unimaginablyĭistant future following the fall of the First Galactic Empire.Ī psychohistorian, Hari Seldon, secretly guided by the forbiddenĪnd long-presumed extinct robots, one of whom masquerades as his The Foundation Novels and stories by Isaac Asimov and Friends:
