<![CDATA[Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation: The Core Trilogy]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/s/story-episodes-archivehttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-EP4!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86a80f79-ec02-40e9-9b5f-39e80abf7c29_600x600.pngSeldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation: The Core Trilogyhttps://www.seldoncrisis.net/s/story-episodes-archiveSubstackFri, 15 May 2026 07:27:23 GMT<![CDATA[Story Episodes: Read or Listen in Order]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/story-episodes-read-or-listen-inhttps://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/story-episodes-read-or-listen-inSat, 03 Jan 2026 01:17:50 GMT

This section is the completed story-episode archive, covering the story in order. If you’re new, start at The Psychohistorians and continue down the list.

The Psychohistorians

The Encyclopedists

The Mayors

The Traders

The Merchant Princes

The General, Pt I

The General, Pt II

The Mule, Pt I

The Mule, Pt II

The Mule, Pt III

Search By The Mule, Pt I

Search By The Mule, Pt II

Search By The Foundation, Pt I

Search By The Foundation, Pt II

Search By The Foundation, Pt III

]]><![CDATA[Search by the Foundation, Part III]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-foundation-part-iii-462https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-foundation-part-iii-462Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:55:00 GMTIt all comes together at last. The war begins, looking bad for the Foundation, but morale turns the tide against Kalgan. In the aftermath, Homir Munn and the others debate the true location of the Second Foundation with many false turns and a final, startling revelation. The First Speaker has the last say in the matter.

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Megan Skye Hale, Jon Blumenfeld, Amanda Kreitler, Zac Kreitler, and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Music by:
Scott Buckley - Juggernaut

Scott Buckley - Permafrost

Scott Buckley - Celestial

Additional music by Musictown on Pixabay

Scott Buckley's twitter: @musoscientific


Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Podcasts and other links for voice talent on this episode:

Amanda Kreitler

Jon Blumenfeld

Megan Skye Hale

Joel's personal Twitter handle is @joelgmckinnon and the SeldonCrisis official account is @SeldonCrisisPod.


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]]><![CDATA[Search by the Foundation, Part II]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-foundation-part-ii-6b2https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-foundation-part-ii-6b2Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:50:00 GMTArkady Darell and Homir Munn arrive on Kalgan and get involved in high level intrigue in the palace of the First Citizen, Lord Stettin, who has eyes on following in the Mule's footsteps to master the galaxy. It seems he also has eyes on Arkady. Stettin's apparently dimwitted mistress Lady Callia befriends Arkady and tries to save her from a horrible fate. An unlikely pair of travelers from distant Trantor appear at a fortuitous moment. But where is the Second Foundation?

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Megan Skye Hale, Jon Blumenfeld, Amanda Kreitler, Zac Kreitler, and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com
Additional music by Musictown from Pixabay

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Podcasts and other links for voice talent on this episode:

Amanda Kreitler

Jon Blumenfeld

Megan Skye Hale

Joel's personal Twitter handle is @joelgmckinnon and the SeldonCrisis official account is @SeldonCrisisPod.


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]]><![CDATA[Search by the Foundation, Part I]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-foundation-part-i-659https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-foundation-part-i-659Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:45:00 GMTYoung Arkady Darell is crazy about the history of the Foundation and her grandmother Bayta's historic duel with the Mule. When her father and friends conspire to uncover the hidden workings of the fabled Second Foundation, she finds a way to join the conspiracy by stowing away aboard a spaceship bound for the vacation planet of Kalgan along with the Foundation's foremost scholar of Muliana, Homir Munn.

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Megan Skye Hale, Jon Blumenfeld, Amanda Kreitler, and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com
Additonal music from Dream Protocol and Ashot Danielyan

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Podcasts and other links for voice talent on this episode:

Amanda Kreitler

Jon Blumenfeld

Megan Skye Hale

Joel's personal Twitter handle is @joelgmckinnon and the SeldonCrisis official account is @SeldonCrisisPod.


Also, please visit SeldonCrisis.net and the Seldon Crisis YouTube channel for the video trailer, intro promos, and video versions of the podcast episodes.

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]]><![CDATA[Search by the Mule, Part II]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-mule-part-ii-b81https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-mule-part-ii-b81Fri, 25 Feb 2022 23:00:00 GMTThe ambitious and confident Bail Channis thinks he is on the trail of the Second Foundation. General Han Pritcher is consumed by jealousy and doubt, but seems to have secret knowledge as the two men huddle in a cold room on frigid Rossem. Someone is coming to their doorway. Is it the Mule? Is it someone else? Is Channis who he seems? Is Pritcher past his prime? All the action is in one small room. Something is about to give.

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Music by bandersn4tch from Pixabay "Dark Secrets of the Universe"


Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Please visit the Seldon Crisis YouTube channel for the video trailer, intro promos, and video versions of the podcast episodes.

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]]><![CDATA[Search by the Mule, Part I]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-mule-part-i-729https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/search-by-the-mule-part-i-729Fri, 28 Jan 2022 23:00:00 GMTThe Mule dominates the galaxy and controls the planets and technology of the Foundation. He is not a happy conqueror, for he is unable to find the rumored Second Foundation despite five years of searching by Han Pritcher, now his loyally converted servant. He calls upon the unconverted and ambitious Bail Channis to lead him to his foe. Meanwhile, the speakers of the mysterious Second Foundation plot their defense.

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Amanda Kreitler and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Rehydrate Podcast

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]]><![CDATA[The Mule, Part III]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-mule-part-iii-12bhttps://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-mule-part-iii-12bFri, 19 Nov 2021 23:00:00 GMTBayta & Toran Darell, Ebling Mis, and Magnifico arrive on the ruined former capital planet of Empire, Trantor. Mis searches frantically in Hari Seldon's psychohistorical archives while their old friend Han Pritcher pays a visit to brag about his promotion under a new boss. Can our heroes find the Second Foundation before the Mule? The fate of the entire galaxy is at stake!

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Amanda Kreitler and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Isaac Asimov, Mystery Writer (Reddit)

The Philosophy of Foundation with Nathaniel Goldberg (Seldon Crisis Episode 6)

Stars End Podcast

Cora Buhlert Blog

Erasmo Acosta, K3+

Tobias Cabral, New Eyes

Please visit Amanda on Severed Fate!

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]]><![CDATA[The Mule, Part II]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-mule-part-ii-c61https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-mule-part-ii-c61Fri, 05 Nov 2021 22:00:00 GMTFoundation has fallen to the Mule and the proud citizens of Terminus are shocked and dismayed. Haven is under siege and our heroes make a mad dash for the center of the Galaxy to find clues to the location of the fabled Second Foundation, the only hope of stopping the Mule from his goal of total galactic conquest. Join Toran & Bayta Darell with Ebling Mis and Magnifico the clown as they seek the ruins of the Imperial Library on Trantor in their frantic search for a powerful ally.

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Amanda Kreitler and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com
Music by Blear Moon – Learning from Kids

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

John W. Campbell (Wikipedia)

Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia)

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]]><![CDATA[The Mule, Part I]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-mule-part-i-fa5https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-mule-part-i-fa5Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:00:00 GMTWe begin the grand story of the unconsidered variable in Hari Seldon's equations, a mutant being of indescribable powers known only as the Mule. He conquers worlds overnight, including the honeymoon destination of Bayta and Toran Darrell. There they meet a clown fleeing from the planet's new lord, the Mule himself. They also encounter Captain Han Pritcher from the security forces, and eventually the Foundation's greatest scientist, Ebling Mis, the man who is the closest to understanding Seldon's psychohistory of any man in centuries. He knows another Seldon Crisis has arrived, and it directly involves the Mule. What will Hari Seldon proclaim in his long awaited return to the Vault?

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Amanda Kreitler and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com
Music by Scott Buckley (Ambush, The Old Ones, Hiraeth, Hunted, The March of Midnight)
Music by Brian Joseph Davis (Work for 20 DVD Players)

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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Also, please visit the Seldon Crisis YouTube channel for the video trailer, intro promos, and video versions of the podcast episodes.

]]><![CDATA[The General, Part II]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-general-part-ii-16bhttps://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-general-part-ii-16bFri, 20 Aug 2021 22:00:00 GMTWe pick up where we left off with the meager Foundation reeling from the onslaught of the Empire's great general Bel Riose. The Emperor's sycophantic envoy Brodrig joins him at the front and insists on personally interrogating the captured spy, Lathan Devers. He and Ducem Barr plot a means to bribe Brodrig, but he surprises them by bribing Devers instead for information on Riose's hidden plans. The two heroes find an opportunity to turn the tables and begin a mad dash to save the Foundation by any means necessary.

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Credits:

Script and voices by Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com
Music, "The Encounter"  by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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]]><![CDATA[The General, Part I]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-general-part-i-e35https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-general-part-i-e35Fri, 23 Jul 2021 22:00:00 GMTSeldon Crisis returns with the second in the seven novel saga, Foundation and Empire, and the opening of The General, which tells the story of the young and brilliant General Bel Riose's attempt to destroy the growing, but still minute Foundation. He is opposed by an old veteran of a tragic civil conflict and a fearless Foundation trader, but most of all by the dead hand of Hari Seldon and powers of psychohistory.

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Credits:

Script and voices by Joel McKinnon
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com
Music, "Hiraeth"  by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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]]><![CDATA[The Merchant Princes]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-merchant-princes-eb6https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-merchant-princes-eb6Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:00:00 GMTOne of the enduring and mythic figures in Foundation history, Hober Mallow, follows in the footsteps of Hari Seldon and Salvor Hardin in facing a truly existential crisis in the growing power of the Korellian Republic, a breakaway star system that may have a very powerful ally deep in the galactic core. Can he find a way to resolve the latest and most troubling Seldon crisis to date? Join us for the concluding chapter of the first of Isaac Asimov's seven novels comprising the Foundation epic.

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Script and voices by Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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]]><![CDATA[The Psychohistorians]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-psychohistorians-3c8https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-psychohistorians-3c8Sat, 03 Apr 2021 15:00:00 GMTYoung scientist Gaal Dornick travels to the imperial capital Trantor to work with the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon. Shortly after his arrival both are arrested and stand trial for disturbing the peace, due to Seldon's predictions of imminent catastrophe for the Empire. Seldon duels with Chief Commissioner of Public Safety Linge Chen, to secure their release and lay the seeds of renaissance in a Foundation upon the distant world of Terminus.

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Script and voices by Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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]]><![CDATA[The Encyclopedists]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-encyclopedists-cfehttps://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-encyclopedists-cfeFri, 02 Apr 2021 15:00:00 GMTThe action shifts to the tiny planet of Terminus near the galactic fringe where Hari Seldon's team of scientists work on compiling the Encyclopedia Galactica central to their plans. The young Foundation is confronted with a powerful menace in the breakaway Kingdom of Anacreon, and it appears the Emperor is now powerless to defend them. A new figure emerges in the Mayor of Terminus City, Salvor Hardin, who has to use his wits and the limited resources of his tiny world to find a way to maintain the independence and vitality of Seldon's audacious project.

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Script and voices by Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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]]><![CDATA[The Mayors]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-mayors-22chttps://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-mayors-22cThu, 01 Apr 2021 22:00:00 GMTMayor Salvor Hardin now leads the government of Terminus and the Foundation, but is threatened politically by the emergent Actionist Party headed by the young firebrand Sef Sermak. The Anacreonian military threat is greater than ever, but is momentarily controlled by the Foundation's use of a false religion based on nuclear technology. A new king will soon take the throne in Anacreon, controlled by a regent intent on attacking and eliminating the Foundation as a political rival. Sermak and the Actionists want to preemptively attack while they hold the upper hand. Hardin must navigate these dual threats to resolve the latest Seldon Crisis and maintain the Foundation's fragile independence.

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Script and voices by Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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]]><![CDATA[The Traders]]>https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-traders-867https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/the-traders-867Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:00:00 GMTLimmar Ponyets is a dashing profiteer on the galactic fringe who gets drawn into a life or death struggle to free a fellow Foundation comrade who also happens to be a secret agent. The Grand Master of Askone is not one to let a prime hostage escape without payment of a high price – preferably in the form of a large amount of shiny gold. His ambitious counselor, however, may have a price of his own.

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Script and voices by Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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