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Dunno if I'm biaised because it's recent, but books :
Foundation cycle from Asimov.(especially the original trilogy). It's SF from 1940's. Yet it holds superbly well , minus the absolute lack of computers. The universe it depicts is absolutely stunning, and some characters (salvor <3) are absolutely amazing.
I haven't read (or to be precise, listened to) the robots cycle, because it's not yet available in french. I did listened to the empire cycle, and it was WAY more underwhelming. Also the two sequels for foundation are just plain bad (but I love the prequels)
Jeez, won me back at the last second there. I don't particularly like the first book, but I thought the sequels were maybe the worst sci-fi I've ever actually sat all the way through. Never read the prequels.
I've seen a lot of people mad that the Apple TV show isn't a faithful adaptation, but I don't think they really had any choice. The first story in the first book has the strongest hook of any of them, and kinda has to be where you start. The sequel books are basically not adaptable by virtue of being borderline incoherent. So that leaves you with more or less just the first book, which would already be a complete mess to adapt faithfully because you'd have to completely restart the show over again and shift POV to Salvor after the very first episode.
What you call the first book is maybe the integral trilogy?
To me the first book ends with hober mallow, and the trilogy ends with arkady.
The prequels follows hari seldon and is kinda neat, it's kinda more adventurous and less political but very pleasant to follow.
Dors venabili best girl, can't change my mind.
I sometimes forget how many different ways Foundation has been published. By the first book, I mean the first compilation from like 1951 just called Foundation. It's got five stories, most but not all of which had been published before. It starts with Seldon getting exiled in "The Psychohistorians" and ends with the fall of Korell in "The Merchant Princes".
I guess you don't like what they end up calling "mentalic" then?
By sequels, I was talking two propers novels about the chase for earth, not "foundation and empire" or "second foundation" (which I both really like)