Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

* Isaac Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica as presented in The Foundation Series is an attempt to compile all human knowledge in order to preserve it following the collapse of the Galactic Empire in the far future.

In Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation and Empire, there is a mention of the myriaton.

* Isaac Asimov's Robots, Empire, and Foundation stories ( the links between many of the stories are a retcon )

Isaac Asimov's fictional Galactic Empire and Foundation series refer to Pax Trantorica and Pax Imperium.

Next, they go to Solaria, where they find that the Solarians — who have survived the Spacer-Settler conflicts by clever retreat detailed in Asimov's novel Robots and Empire — have engineered themselves into self-reproducing hermaphrodite beings, who have remained generally intolerant of human physical presence or contact.

Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series and Empire series of science fiction novels.

The Galactic Empire series ( also called the Empire novels or trilogy ) is a science fiction sequence of three of Isaac Asimov's earliest novels, and extended to one short story.

They are connected by their early place in his published works and chronological placement within his overarching Foundation Universe, set around the rise of Asimov's Galactic Empire, between the Robot and Foundation series to which they were linked in Asimov's later novels.

The three Empire books, first published between 1950 and 1952, are Asimov's three earliest novels published in his own name ( David Starr, Space Ranger was published before The Currents of Space, but had been published under his pen name " Paul French ", and the Foundation books were collections of linked short stories rather than continuous novels ).

Their main common points are Asimov's idea of a future Galactic Empire, certain aspects of technology — hyperdrive, blaster pistols, " neuronic whips ," the possible invention of the " Visi-Sonor " — and particular locations, such as the planet Trantor.

* Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire

( In Asimov's saga, the Galactic Era begins when the Galactic Empire is founded at an unknown date roughly 11, 000 years in the future: the timeline can be deduced from some hints Asimov dropped in his other science fiction works, including the Robot and Empire series.

Asimov's Encyclopædia Galactica was a compendium of all knowledge then available in the Galactic Empire, intended to preserve that knowledge in a remote region of the Galaxy in the event of a foreseen Galactic catastrophe.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire series depict a common theme of a destroyed Earth.

Very complex brains designed to handle world economy interpret the First Law in expanded sense to include humanity as opposed to a single human ; in Asimov's later works like Robots and Empire this is referred to as the " Zeroth Law ".

Olivaw appears in Asimov's Robot and Foundation series, most notably in the novels The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire, Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation and Earth.

Robots and Empire is part of Asimov's consolidation of his three major series of science fiction stories and novels: his Robot series, his Galactic Empire series and his Foundation series.

But Asimov's later Galactic Empire is populated by many quadrillions of human beings on hundreds of thousands of habitable planets ; and by very few robots ( such as R. Daneel Olivaw ).

* In the Star Wars prequels, the galactic capital planet Coruscant has buildings many miles tall, and approaches the completely built-over condition of Trantor in Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy ( Note: due to this, Coruscant was originally to be named Jhantor but was eventually renamed Coruscant ).

Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.

As in Isaac Asimov's earlier Foundation series, humanity has colonized a galaxy in which there are no competing intelligent species.

Like Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, The Martian Chronicles follows a " future history " structure.

In the late 1990s, he wrote Foundation's Fear, one of an authorized sequel trilogy to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

* Bel Riose, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series

In his 1991 introduction to the novel, Card discussed the influence of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series on the novelette and novel.

In Foundation's Triumph, the last book in the Second Foundation Trilogy authorized by Asimov's estate, another possible future for the Galaxy is discussed.

The series is set in the same universe as Asimov's first published novel, Pebble in the Sky, although Foundation takes place approximately ten thousand years later.

Early on during Asimov's original world-building of the Foundation universe, he established within the first published stories a chronology placing the tales approximately 50, 000 years into the future from the time they were written ( c. 1940 ).

* Terminus ( planet ), the home of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels

It is eventually discovered that the bacterial life on Erythro forms a collective organism that possesses a form of consciousness and telepathy ( a concept similar to the Gaia of Asimov's Foundation series ).

* In Isaac Asimov's Robot series, Earth's population lives in large hyperstructures simply called Cities.

The episode reflects the ideas created in such works as Bicentennial Man and Asimov's Robot series ( which introduced the Three Laws Of Robotics ).

Although hinted at in Foundation's Edge, this book was the first book of the series that merged it with Asimov's Robot series.

There is also another set of novels by various authors ( Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Robots and Aliens and Robots in Time series ), loosely connected to the Robots Series, but containing many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, which are not generally considered canon.

These form an organizing principle and unifying theme for Asimov's robotic-based fiction, appearing in his Robot series, the stories linked to it, and his Lucky Starr series of young-adult fiction.

In addition the Robot Mystery series addresses the problem of nanotechnology: building a positronic brain capable of reproducing human cognitive processes requires a high degree of miniaturization, yet Asimov's stories largely overlook the effects this miniaturization would have in other fields of technology.

His name is derived from Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr series and the " Lone Star State " of Texas, as well as being a parody on the last names of the two heroes of Star Wars, Solo ( Lone ) and Skywalker ( Star ).

* Emperor, a novel in the science fiction Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time series by William F. Wu

Terminus is a fictional planet at the edge of the Galaxy in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, home of the Foundation ( later capital of the Foundation Federation ).

* Trantor, the capital of an interstellar empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, is a planet entirely covered in one huge metal clad building, with only one small green space: the Emperor's palace grounds.

* The planet Trantor, capital of the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.