#109 in Science fiction
Foundation's Edge
- 450
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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About the book
Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. It was written more than thirty years after the stories of the original Foundation trilogy, due to years of pressure by fans and editors on Asimov to write another, and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher. It was his first novel to ever land on The New York Times best-seller list, after 262 books and 44 years of writing.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 705 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 83% of the weight and the score stays at 8.2 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it. A further +0.10 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 84 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 621 | 88% |
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It has 450 pages — longer than 53% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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