* See the various “Robot Stories” sections below for the complicated details on this book. In the end, the series looked like this when placed in its internal chronology: There’s no one way to read the series, so I hope to discuss the works in a way that will help readers decide for themselves. This universe can often seem confusing and daunting to new readers, leaving them unsure of what to read and when. When Isaac Asimov died, among the hundreds of works he left behind were the numerous stories and novels which made up his galaxy- and millennia-spanning super-series of Robots, Empire, and Foundation. All is not lost, though, as January 10th is the 80th anniversary of the March 1939 Amazing Stories hitting the magazine racks and bringing his first published story, “Marooned Off Vesta,” into the world.) (I’d intended to post this on January 2nd, which would have been Isaac Asimov’s 99th birthday but I didn’t get it done in time.
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