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{{Short description|1982 novel by Isaac Asimov}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Foundation's Edge | title_orig = | translator = | image = IsaacAsimov Foundation'sEdge.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover) | author = [[Isaac Asimov]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = [[Joe Caroff]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?224597|title=Publication: Foundation's Edge}}</ref> | country = United States | language = English | series = [[Foundation Series|''Foundation'' Series]] | genre = [[Science fiction]] | published = June 1, 1982 ([[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]) | media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback) | pages = 367 | awards = [[Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel]] (1983) | isbn = 0-385-17725-9 | dewey = 813/.54 19 | congress = PS3551.S5 F6 1982 | oclc = 8473906 | preceded_by = [[Second Foundation]] | followed_by = [[Foundation and Earth]] }} '''''Foundation's Edge''''' (1982) is a [[science fiction]] novel by American writer [[Isaac Asimov]], the fourth book in the [[Foundation (book series)|''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,<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080926040513/http://wiredforbooks.org/isaacasimov/ Isaac Asimov Interview with Don Swaim]}}</ref> 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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