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* PreviouslyOn: Editions since the early eighties have included "The Story Behind the ''Foundation''". It is a meta-example because it explains why ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'' has had so many different editions in the forty years since he sold "Literature/Foundation1941"."Literature/Foundation1942". It also tells the reader [[OnTheNext another book in the series is coming]]; ''Literature/FoundationsEdge''.
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* CoverDrop:
** The 1965 Creator/{{Panther}} cover has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a red cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon in a room with red walls.
** The Creator/DelRey cover from 1983 has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a green cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon set upon a pedestal.
** The Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991 has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a blue cylinder containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon behind a bronze vault door with blackness behind it.
** The 1965 Creator/{{Panther}} cover has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a red cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon in a room with red walls.
** The Creator/DelRey cover from 1983 has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a green cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon set upon a pedestal.
** The Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991 has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a blue cylinder containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon behind a bronze vault door with blackness behind it.
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**CoverDrop: The 1965 Creator/{{Panther}} cover, 1983 Creator/DelRey cover, and 1991 Creator/BantamSpectra cover has have an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s Terminus]].
** On the Panther cover, it's a red cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon in a room with red walls.
**The Creator/DelRey cover from 1983 has an artist depicting On the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s Del Rey cover, it's a green cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon set upon a pedestal.
**The Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991 has an artist depicting On the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s Bantam Spectra cover, it's a blue cylinder containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon behind a bronze vault door with blackness behind it.
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** On the Panther cover, it's a red cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon in a room with red walls.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The Creator/AceBooks publications of the first ''Foundation'’ ''Foundation'' novel are called ''The 1,000 Year Plan''. This title reflects an abridged version of the original, with "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" being cut.
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''Foundation'' is a [[{{Anthology}} collection]] of five ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' stories by Creator/IsaacAsimov, edited into a cohesive {{Novel}} for Creator/GnomePress publication in 1951. Reprinted many times since, Creator/AceBooks used the title ''The 1,000 Year Plan'' for their [[CompressedAdaptation abridged]] printings.
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* RaygunGothic: Starting with "Literature/TheEncyclopedists", characters have a variety of new devices that are essentially older technology with a smaller energy source, called 'atomics'. As the decades pass, they continue nuclear miniaturization, and in "Literature/TheTraders" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", start calling such devices 'nucleics’. The ([[VestigialEmpire collapsing]]) Empire uses generators the size of large buildings, while the Foundation creates generators the size of a pocketwatch.
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* RaygunGothic: Starting with "Literature/TheEncyclopedists", characters have a variety of new devices that are essentially older technology with a smaller energy source, called 'atomics'. As the decades pass, they continue nuclear miniaturization, and in "Literature/TheTraders" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", start calling such devices 'nucleics’.'nucleics'. The ([[VestigialEmpire collapsing]]) Empire uses generators the size of large buildings, while the Foundation creates generators the size of a pocketwatch.
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* MarketBasedTitle: The 1959 German translation (by Creator/{{Moewig}}) for ''Foundation'' is ''Terminus, der letzte Planet'', in English, this is equivalent to ''Terminus, the last Planet''.
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* MarketBasedTitle: The 1959 German translation (by Creator/{{Moewig}}) for ''Foundation'' is ''Terminus, der letzte Planet'', in Planet''. In English, this is equivalent to ''Terminus, the last Planet''.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The Creator/AceBooks publications of the first ''Foundation'’ novel are called ''Literature/The1000YearPlan''.''The 1,000 Year Plan''. This title reflects an abridged version of the original, with "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" being cut.
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* DoubleSidedBook: Creator/AceBooks Creator/AceBooks' double novel series has D-110; ''Literature/NoWorldOfTheirOwn'' by Creator/PoulAnderson on the front and ''Literature/TheThousandYearPlan'’ ''Literature/TheThousandYearPlan'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov (the first novel of ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'') on the back.
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''Foundation'' is a [[{{Anthology}} collection]] of five ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' stories edited into a cohesive {{Novel}} for Creator/GnomePress publication in 1951. Reprinted many times since, Creator/AceBooks used the title ''The 1,000 Year Plan'' for their [[CompressedAdaptation abridged]] printings.
These first few stories establish the internal and external conflicts of Terminus tend to occur at the simultaneously. Wise enough leaders will deliberately manipulate one faction or another to ensure that both happen at near enough the same day because each "Seldon Crisis" must be solved by answering both problems at the same time.
!!''Foundation'' chapters:
[[index]]%%Works in chronological order
* "Literature/ThePsychohistorians" (first publication)
* "Literature/TheEncyclopedists"
* "Literature/TheMayors"
* "Literature/TheTraders"
* "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces"
[[/index]]
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!!''Foundation'' provides examples of:
* AdvertisingByAssociation: The 1960 Creator/{{Panther}} edition points out that Dr Asimov also wrote ''Literature/TheNakedSun''.
* BilledAboveTheTitle:
** The French translation, published by Creator/{{Gallimard}} in 1957, includes Dr Asimov's name above the title in much smaller font.
** The Creator/AceBooks 1962 edition of ''The 1,000 Year Plan'' (red cover) places Dr Asimov's name above the title, in slightly smaller font. The older blue covers included his name at the bottom left of the cover instead.
** The Creator/{{Panther}} editions consistently published Dr Asimov's name above the title, ranging from "same size" to "three times the size".
** The Creator/DelRey cover from 1983 makes "Isaac" three times as large as the title, and "Asimov" twice as large again.
** The Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991 only uses "ASIMOV", but makes it twice as large as the title and {{Tagline}} combined.
** The Creator/HarperCollins (UK) cover from 1994 published Dr Asimov's name large enough to take up the top third, even larger than the focal point of the cover.
** The Creator/HarperVoyager (UK) cover from 2016 published Dr Asimov's name at the top, somewhat larger than the title, but smaller than the sun and spaceship on the cover.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: One translation of the English ''Foundation'' to Russian translates the words "Logarithmic slide rule" as "Pravilo logariphmicheskogo skol'zheniya". Literally "The law of logarithmic sliding".
* CompressedAdaptation: The Creator/AceBooks publications of the first ''Foundation'’ novel are called ''Literature/The1000YearPlan''. This title reflects an abridged version of the original, with "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" being cut.
* CoverDrop:
** The 1965 Creator/{{Panther}} cover has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a red cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon in a room with red walls.
** The Creator/DelRey cover from 1983 has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a green cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon set upon a pedestal.
** The Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991 has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a blue cylinder containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon behind a bronze vault door with blackness behind it.
* {{Dedication}}: This book is dedicated to Dr Asimov's mother.
--> To My Mother\\
''Of Whose Authentic Gray Hairs\\
Not a Few Were Caused by Myself''
* DoubleBook: Creator/AceBooks double novel series has D-110; ''Literature/NoWorldOfTheirOwn'' by Creator/PoulAnderson on the front and ''Literature/TheThousandYearPlan'’ by Creator/IsaacAsimov (the first novel of ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'') on the back.
* MarketBasedTitle: The 1959 German translation (by Creator/{{Moewig}}) for ''Foundation'' is ''Terminus, der letzte Planet'', in English, this is equivalent to ''Terminus, the last Planet''.
* TheNamesake:
** The title, [[TitleDropChapter reused from the first story]], refers to the (first) Foundation, which Hari Seldon arranged to have colonized the distant planet Terminus.
** The alternative title, ''The 1,000 Year Plan'', refers to Hari Seldon's [[ThePlan Plan]] for a mere thousand years between the collapse of the Galactic Empire and the rise of the next Galactic Empire.
* {{Omnibus}}: ''Literature/Foundation1951'' and ''Literature/IRobot'' were published as a single volume by Creator/OctopusBooks in 1984.
* OneSteveLimit:
** A subtle [[AvertedTrope aversion]] occurs because "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" has a character named Jord Fara, while "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" has a priest named Jord Parma. Fortunately, both are minor and appear in two different stories, [[DashedPlotLine set roughly a century apart]], which minimizes the confusion.
** TheProtagonist of "Literature/TheTraders" is Lanthan Devers when originally published, but also one of the minor characters in "Literature/TheGeneralFoundation" was given the name Lanthan Devers, so when Dr Asimov [[OrwellianRetcon edited]] "The Traders" for publication in ''Literature/Foundation1951'', he [[OrwellianRetcon changed the name]] to Limmar Ponyets, to clarify that these weren't the same characters.
* OneWordTitle: The name of the first book in ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'' is titled simply ''Foundation'', taking it from the original name for "Literature/TheEncyclopedists".
* PreviouslyOn: Editions since the early eighties have included "The Story Behind the ''Foundation''". It is a meta-example because it explains why ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'' has had so many different editions in the forty years since he sold "Literature/Foundation1941". It also tells the reader [[OnTheNext another book in the series is coming]]; ''Literature/FoundationsEdge''.
* RaygunGothic: Starting with "Literature/TheEncyclopedists", characters have a variety of new devices that are essentially older technology with a smaller energy source, called 'atomics'. As the decades pass, they continue nuclear miniaturization, and in "Literature/TheTraders" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", start calling such devices 'nucleics’. The ([[VestigialEmpire collapsing]]) Empire uses generators the size of large buildings, while the Foundation creates generators the size of a pocketwatch.
* {{Tagline}}:
** "An Interplanetary Novel by Creator/IsaacAsimov" -- Creator/GnomePress cover from 1951
** "A million worlds made up their society-- now the threat of thirty thousand years of anarchy loomed large" -- Creator/{{Panther}} edition from 1960
** "The Galaxy was crumbling into thirty thousand years of anarchy" -- Creator/{{Panther}} edition from 1964 & from 1965
** "In a future century the Galactic Empire dies and one man creates a new force for civilized life" -- Creator/{{Avon}}'s cover from 1966
** "Book One of the ''Foundation Trilogy'', awarded the [[UsefulNotes/HugoAward Hugo]] as Best Series Ever!" -- Creator/DelRey's cover from 1983
** "The first book in the epic {{Literature/Foundation|Series}} saga" -- Creator/{{Panther}} edition from 1984.
** "The Foundation Novels" -- Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991
* TitleDropChapter: The first {{Novella}} was initially published as "Foundation". When publishing this {{Novel}}, Dr Asimov [[OrwellianRetcon renamed the chapter]] to "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" and [[DefiedTrope deliberately avoided]] sharing a chapter title with the book's title.
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''Foundation'' is a [[{{Anthology}} collection]] of five ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' stories edited into a cohesive {{Novel}} for Creator/GnomePress publication in 1951. Reprinted many times since, Creator/AceBooks used the title ''The 1,000 Year Plan'' for their [[CompressedAdaptation abridged]] printings.
These first few stories establish the internal and external conflicts of Terminus tend to occur at the simultaneously. Wise enough leaders will deliberately manipulate one faction or another to ensure that both happen at near enough the same day because each "Seldon Crisis" must be solved by answering both problems at the same time.
!!''Foundation'' chapters:
[[index]]%%Works in chronological order
* "Literature/ThePsychohistorians" (first publication)
* "Literature/TheEncyclopedists"
* "Literature/TheMayors"
* "Literature/TheTraders"
* "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces"
[[/index]]
----
!!''Foundation'' provides examples of:
* AdvertisingByAssociation: The 1960 Creator/{{Panther}} edition points out that Dr Asimov also wrote ''Literature/TheNakedSun''.
* BilledAboveTheTitle:
** The French translation, published by Creator/{{Gallimard}} in 1957, includes Dr Asimov's name above the title in much smaller font.
** The Creator/AceBooks 1962 edition of ''The 1,000 Year Plan'' (red cover) places Dr Asimov's name above the title, in slightly smaller font. The older blue covers included his name at the bottom left of the cover instead.
** The Creator/{{Panther}} editions consistently published Dr Asimov's name above the title, ranging from "same size" to "three times the size".
** The Creator/DelRey cover from 1983 makes "Isaac" three times as large as the title, and "Asimov" twice as large again.
** The Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991 only uses "ASIMOV", but makes it twice as large as the title and {{Tagline}} combined.
** The Creator/HarperCollins (UK) cover from 1994 published Dr Asimov's name large enough to take up the top third, even larger than the focal point of the cover.
** The Creator/HarperVoyager (UK) cover from 2016 published Dr Asimov's name at the top, somewhat larger than the title, but smaller than the sun and spaceship on the cover.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: One translation of the English ''Foundation'' to Russian translates the words "Logarithmic slide rule" as "Pravilo logariphmicheskogo skol'zheniya". Literally "The law of logarithmic sliding".
* CompressedAdaptation: The Creator/AceBooks publications of the first ''Foundation'’ novel are called ''Literature/The1000YearPlan''. This title reflects an abridged version of the original, with "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" being cut.
* CoverDrop:
** The 1965 Creator/{{Panther}} cover has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a red cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon in a room with red walls.
** The Creator/DelRey cover from 1983 has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a green cube containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon set upon a pedestal.
** The Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991 has an artist depicting the Time Vault, where the [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead]] Hari Seldon [[DeadManWriting has a holographic message for the successors of Terminus]]. It’s a blue cylinder containing the {{Hologram}} of Seldon behind a bronze vault door with blackness behind it.
* {{Dedication}}: This book is dedicated to Dr Asimov's mother.
--> To My Mother\\
''Of Whose Authentic Gray Hairs\\
Not a Few Were Caused by Myself''
* DoubleBook: Creator/AceBooks double novel series has D-110; ''Literature/NoWorldOfTheirOwn'' by Creator/PoulAnderson on the front and ''Literature/TheThousandYearPlan'’ by Creator/IsaacAsimov (the first novel of ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'') on the back.
* MarketBasedTitle: The 1959 German translation (by Creator/{{Moewig}}) for ''Foundation'' is ''Terminus, der letzte Planet'', in English, this is equivalent to ''Terminus, the last Planet''.
* TheNamesake:
** The title, [[TitleDropChapter reused from the first story]], refers to the (first) Foundation, which Hari Seldon arranged to have colonized the distant planet Terminus.
** The alternative title, ''The 1,000 Year Plan'', refers to Hari Seldon's [[ThePlan Plan]] for a mere thousand years between the collapse of the Galactic Empire and the rise of the next Galactic Empire.
* {{Omnibus}}: ''Literature/Foundation1951'' and ''Literature/IRobot'' were published as a single volume by Creator/OctopusBooks in 1984.
* OneSteveLimit:
** A subtle [[AvertedTrope aversion]] occurs because "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" has a character named Jord Fara, while "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" has a priest named Jord Parma. Fortunately, both are minor and appear in two different stories, [[DashedPlotLine set roughly a century apart]], which minimizes the confusion.
** TheProtagonist of "Literature/TheTraders" is Lanthan Devers when originally published, but also one of the minor characters in "Literature/TheGeneralFoundation" was given the name Lanthan Devers, so when Dr Asimov [[OrwellianRetcon edited]] "The Traders" for publication in ''Literature/Foundation1951'', he [[OrwellianRetcon changed the name]] to Limmar Ponyets, to clarify that these weren't the same characters.
* OneWordTitle: The name of the first book in ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'' is titled simply ''Foundation'', taking it from the original name for "Literature/TheEncyclopedists".
* PreviouslyOn: Editions since the early eighties have included "The Story Behind the ''Foundation''". It is a meta-example because it explains why ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'' has had so many different editions in the forty years since he sold "Literature/Foundation1941". It also tells the reader [[OnTheNext another book in the series is coming]]; ''Literature/FoundationsEdge''.
* RaygunGothic: Starting with "Literature/TheEncyclopedists", characters have a variety of new devices that are essentially older technology with a smaller energy source, called 'atomics'. As the decades pass, they continue nuclear miniaturization, and in "Literature/TheTraders" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", start calling such devices 'nucleics’. The ([[VestigialEmpire collapsing]]) Empire uses generators the size of large buildings, while the Foundation creates generators the size of a pocketwatch.
* {{Tagline}}:
** "An Interplanetary Novel by Creator/IsaacAsimov" -- Creator/GnomePress cover from 1951
** "A million worlds made up their society-- now the threat of thirty thousand years of anarchy loomed large" -- Creator/{{Panther}} edition from 1960
** "The Galaxy was crumbling into thirty thousand years of anarchy" -- Creator/{{Panther}} edition from 1964 & from 1965
** "In a future century the Galactic Empire dies and one man creates a new force for civilized life" -- Creator/{{Avon}}'s cover from 1966
** "Book One of the ''Foundation Trilogy'', awarded the [[UsefulNotes/HugoAward Hugo]] as Best Series Ever!" -- Creator/DelRey's cover from 1983
** "The first book in the epic {{Literature/Foundation|Series}} saga" -- Creator/{{Panther}} edition from 1984.
** "The Foundation Novels" -- Creator/BantamSpectra cover from 1991
* TitleDropChapter: The first {{Novella}} was initially published as "Foundation". When publishing this {{Novel}}, Dr Asimov [[OrwellianRetcon renamed the chapter]] to "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" and [[DefiedTrope deliberately avoided]] sharing a chapter title with the book's title.
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