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* Most ''[[Gundam]]'' series are typically set at Stage 1...and sadly jump into Stage 2.
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* ''[[Legend of the Galactic Heroes]]'' takes place during the end of the Second Empire and the birth of the Third.
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** There are a few (very minor) hints that the first government was the Terran Concordiat from Laumer's ''[[Bolo]]'' series, although the tone of the two series' [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness|doesn't really mesh]]. Said stories are also an example themselves, covering a timespan from the start of World War III up to the collapse of the Concordiat in the [[Apocalypse How|Final War]] with the [[Intelligent Gerbil|Melconians]].
* ''[[Known Space]]'': Often shows the exploration of Solar System and Interstellar Space, as well as Alien Contact.
* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Terro-Human Future History'' is cyclical, going through at least five Empires after the Terran Federation falls. Piper's timeline was a little more detailed than Asimov's, and was also influential in codifying the trope.
* [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''Psychotechnic League'' stories has World War III occur at the begining, a brief Interregnum which results in exploration of the Solar System and the formation of the Solar Union, which plays the role of the First Empire. However, things go bad, and another Interregnum occurs, until the discovery of FTL travel, which leads to the formation of the Stellar Union, in the role of a Second Empire.
** A second series of his fits this pattern as well -- the [[Technic History]] stories set in the ''Poleseotechnic League'' of [[Intrepid Merchant|Nicholas van Rijn and David Falkayn]] and subsequent Terran Empire of [[Overt Operative|Dominic Flandry]].
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* Arthur C.Clarke's "Childhood's End" bizarrely jumps from Stage 1 to Stage 4 and then horrifyingly to Stage 7 without any gaps in between. His short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" is even worse, ending at Stage 7 {{spoiler|for the entire Universe}} without any hint that humans have even reached Stage 1.
* In Sylvia Louise Engdahl's [[Enchantress Of The Stars]], [[The Federation]] believes that humans pass through 3 stages: childhood (which would probably be step 1), adolescence (which is probably steps 2-4) and adulthood (which is step 5 on).
* The [[Ur Example]] here would be Edward Gibbon's ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', at least for the Cycle of Empire stages. While Nonfiction, Issac Asimov based [[Foundation]] on the ideas of Gibbon's work. As a result, Gibbon indirectly influenced the genre.
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