The master has transformed some new unrelated into a series of remarkable consistency. One (psycho) history of mankind through space and time: who's pulling the strings? The success and under the joint pressure of the readers and the editor, four volumes have completed 30 years later the original trilogy (Hugo award in 1966), the eponymous volume is limited interest. To embrace the Foundation universe, I suggest you read other volumes that can be grouped into a "super-cycle" of Foundation: Steel Caves (1953), The Naked Sun (1957), The Robots of Dawn (1983), Robots and Empire (1985), Prelude to Foundation (1988), Dawn Foundation (1993), Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), Second Foundation (1953), Foundation's Edge (1982), Foundation and Earth (1986)