From Robots to Foundations: Mapping space and time in Asimov's galaxy


They called him Raven 
because he unravelled mankind’s future - 
the future of a human species 
that had forgotten its past.


Only fragments of history in space had been preserved.
And the planet called Earth had been forgotten.

The most detailed timetable of all books and short-stories that Isaac Asimov set in the Robots-Foundation-Universe. Followed by an alphabetic encyclopaedia of all stars and planets alluded to in Asimov's works.
Including a list of all known emperors of Trantor.

Third edition, April 2017.
178 pages. 44 images and star maps.
ISBN-10: 1499569823 ISBN-13: 978-1499569827

Extras:

The book trailer:






The original opening of Isaac Asimov's short story "Foundation", published only in Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1942, and not included in any book edition of "Foundation" since it was preceded and replaced by the short story "The Psychohistorians": 





The printable full-colour map of Asimov's Galaxy, a b/w version is included in the book (left. click to enlarge).

An infographic on the attested galactic emperors
(right. click to enlarge).


 




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