If what hooked you in Foundation and Earth was following Golan Trevize’s single, overriding mission—chasing clue after clue from Comporellon to Aurora to finally confront Daneel’s truth—then Clarke’s classic will hit the same nerve. Here, humanity mounts a focused expedition to investigate the vast alien cylinder Rama, with the crew’s step‑by‑step probing and escalating discoveries echoing Trevize and Pelorat’s methodical hunt. You’ll get that same forward thrust toward an answer that could reshape humanity’s future.

You enjoyed the way Trevize, Pelorat, and Bliss roamed from world to world—Solaria’s eerie isolation, Melpomenia’s dead clues, the Moon’s hidden chamber—while wrestling with decisions that might guide all of humanity. House of Suns delivers that same sweep. The immortal “shatterlings” circle the galaxy across millennia, uncovering buried histories and conspiracies whose revelation could alter civilization’s trajectory. It’s the epic, time‑drenched wonder of Asimov’s endgame, scaled up and saturated with jaw‑dropping reveals.

If the heart of Foundation and Earth for you was Trevize’s struggle to justify choosing Galaxia—balancing Bliss’s group‑mind ethics against the value of individual agency—then Le Guin’s novel is a perfect next step. Through Shevek’s journey between an anarchist society and a capitalist world, The Dispossessed probes freedom, responsibility, and the structures that shape a civilization’s soul with the same intellectual heat as Trevize’s final confrontation beneath the Moon.

If you loved the interpersonal rhythm of Trevize’s sparring logic, Pelorat’s scholarly curiosity, and Bliss’s Gaian perspective as they hop from Comporellon to Solaria, Chambers offers that same soft‑SF charm. A tunneling ship’s crew meanders through space, meeting new cultures and debating ethics, identity, and belonging. It’s the cozy, people‑first side of exploration that made the trio’s journey so inviting—even when the stakes (as with Galaxia) are cosmic.

The breadcrumb‑trail feel of Foundation and Earth—deciphering relics and inscriptions from Melpomenia to Solaria to find Earth—maps beautifully onto McDevitt’s archaeological mystery. An exploration team investigates enigmatic alien ruins on multiple worlds, assembling clues toward a revelation with species‑level consequences. If teasing out humanity’s origins and purpose kept you turning pages until Daneel’s reveal, this will scratch that same investigative itch.