The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical backgroundall to help you gain greater insight into great works youre bound to study for school or pleasure.In CliffsNotes on Asimovs Foundation Trilogy and Other Works, you explore the American authors original three Foundation books, the three Empire novels, The End of Eternity, and The Gods Themselves. The Foundation Trilogy, written between 195153 is celebrated science fiction writer Isaac Asimovs most famous work. In the three-book series, he portrays the ruin and rebirth of a futuristic interstellar empire.In this study guide, youll find Life and Background on the Author, Introduction to Asimovs Science Fiction, and Critical Commentaries on Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation, plus a look inside the following other titles by this prolific writer:Pebble in the SkyThe Stars, Like DustThe Currents of SpaceThe End of EternityThe Gods ThemselvesClassic literature or modern-day treasureyoull understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.