Editing Foundation and Empire (section)

==Reception==
[[Groff Conklin]] described ''Foundation and Empire'' as "fine swashbuckling galactic adventure [based] on some extremely hard-headed, scientific and mature social-political thinking."<ref>"Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf," ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'', January 1953, p.97</ref> [[Anthony Boucher|Boucher]] and [[J. Francis McComas|McComas]], however, panned the volume, declaring that "Anyone with a nodding acquaintance with [[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]], [[James Henry Breasted|Breasted]], or [[William H. Prescott|Prescott]] will find no new concepts [here] save the utterly incomprehensible ones contained in the author's own personal science of 'psycho-history'."<ref>"Recommended Reading," ''[[F&SF]]'', January 1953, p.90</ref>

The Hugo Awards were established in 1953; making it too late for the novel to be eligible for nominations. However, parts of ''Foundation and Empire'' originally published in ''Astounding Science Fiction'' were later retroactively nominated for Retro-Hugo Awards, one of them winning the 1946 Retro-Hugo Award for the Best Novel (of 1945): 
* "Dead Hand" (later retitled into "The General") was 2nd among the novellas nominated for a retrospective 1946 Hugo Award for the Best Novella (of 1945) in 1996, losing to "[[Animal Farm]]" by [[George Orwell]].<ref name="Hugo46">{{cite conference | last=  | first=  | display-authors=  | date= August 30, 1996 | title= 1946 Retro-Hugo Awards | publisher= [[World Science Fiction Society]]/[[Hugo Award|The Hugo Awards]] | location= Anaheim, CA, United States | conference=  L.A. Con III | url= https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1946-retro-hugo-awards/ | access-date= 10 August 2024 | archive-date=  | archive-url=  | url-status= live }}</ref>
* "The Mule" won a retrospective 1946 Hugo Award for the Best Novel (of 1945) in 1996;<ref name="Hugo46"/>

The ''Foundation trilogy'', of which ''Foundation and Empire'' is the second book, won a Hugo Award in 1966 for Best All-Time Series.