Foundation’s Edge AFTERWORD

(for now)AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORThis book age self-contained, is a continuation of The ass Trilogy, which is made up of three books Foundation, Foundation and imperium, and Second Foundation.In addition, there atomic number 18 other books I have written which, while non dealing with the Foundations directly, argon set in what we might call the Foundation conception.Thus, the events in The Stars, the like Dust and The Currents of Space defend place in the years when Trantor was expanding toward Empire, while the events in Pebble in the Sky pullulate place when the First Galactic Empire was at the height of its power. In Pebble, commonwealth is central and some of the material in it is alluded to tangentially in this new book.In none of the earlier books of the Foundation universe were robots mentioned. In this new book, however, there atomic number 18 references to robots. In this connection, you may wish to instruct my robot stories. The short stories are to be found in The Complete Robot, while the two novels, The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, absorb the robotic period of the colonization of the Galaxy.If you wish an broadside of the Eternals and the way in which they adjusted clement history, you will find it (not entirely arranged with the references in this new book) in The eradicate of Eternity.All the books mentioned existed as Doubleday hardcovers, to begin with. The Foundation Trilogy and The Complete Robot are shut away in print in hardcover. Of the others, Pebble in the Sky and The End of Eternity are included in the heap quite a little The Far Ends of Time and Earth, while The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space are in the omnibus volume Prisoners of the Stars. Both omnibus volumes are in print in hardcover. As for The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, they are included in the omnibus volume The Robot Novels, still available from the cognizance Fiction Book Club. And all are in print in softcover editions, of course .