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The Geek's Genre Guide

The essential authors of science fiction, fantasy & horror — and where to start reading them.

Series Guide

Foundation series

by Isaac Asimov

The fall and engineered rebirth of a Galactic Empire, guided by Hari Seldon's predictive science of psychohistory. The genre's definitive future-history epic, Hugo-crowned Best All-Time Series in 1966.

In the Guide

Foundation

1951 · book 1

Cornerstone of the future-history tradition; Hugo for Best All-Time Series (1966). Inspired readers from Paul Krugman (economics) to Elon Musk, and an Apple TV+ adaptation from 2021.