I, Robot · 1950
A collection of linked stories about the first thinking robots and the Three Laws meant to keep them safe. Through the memories of a robopsychologist, people keep running into the gap between a rule as written and a rule as lived.
Foundation · 1951
As a vast Galactic Empire slides toward collapse, a scientist foresees the long dark ages ahead and founds a small colony of scholars to shorten them. On a remote world that colony must survive among stronger neighbours by wit rather than force.
Foundation and Empire · 1952
The young Foundation has grown strong enough to trouble what is left of the old Empire, and then a far stranger threat appears that no forecast expected. A story about whether the tide of history can be bent by a single extraordinary person.
