Foundation

Key Takeaways

Kyle, in 2025 in Books: There are some things I’m embarrassed that I’ve never consumed. For example? I’ve never seen The Godfather. Even though I’m a massive film nerd… I’ve just never seen it. I feel the same about Foundation. How I can enjoy science fiction as much as I do, and yet have never read it until now? I’m embarrassed. The, sort of, anthology approach to different stories within the same developing world is really the only way you can tell a story that spans tens of thousands of years.

Connections

• Foundation & Empire — the second volume of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy.
• I, Robot — Asimov’s other major cycle.

Recommended again: “The Foundation Series” appears in the Required section of @FilArons’s November 16, 2025 recommended-reading list. Per the one-card-per-series rule the sighting belongs at the first volume, and Kyle had already read it (year_read: 2025, along with Foundation & Empire), so it is recorded here rather than as an anti-library card.

• Named on the a16z Infra Reading List — the a16z infrastructure team’s standing reading list, in its Sci-fi / Classics (A tier) section, under Isaac Asimov’s selected works. Recorded here rather than as an anti-library card because Kyle has read it. The list cites the series rather than a single volume.