Question: Did the authors Isaac Asimov and Jean Giono write their fictions in a similar setting?

Context articles: Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy
Foundation's Triumph
Jean Giono
Grand prix Jean Giono
The Last Question
Foundation's Friends
Isaac Asimov
Wizards (Asimov anthology)
Isaac Asimov's Robot City

Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens is a series of novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's "Robot" series.
 Each volume is complete in itself, but they form a continuing series.
 The series follows the action of the novels of the "Isaac Asimov's Robot City" series, with the same protagonists Derec and Ariel, and many other characters.
 The plot deals with the Three Laws and encounters between robots and different varieties of alien life.
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy is a series of twelve themed paperback fantasy and science fiction anthologies edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, a companion set to the ten volume "Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction", produced by the same editors.
 It was published by Signet/New American Library from 1983 to 1991.
 Volumes 1 and 2 were also issued in hardcover in an omnibus collection titled "Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Witches & Wizards".
Foundation's Triumph (1999) is a science fiction novel by David Brin, set in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" universe.
 It is the third book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate.
 Brin synthesizes dozens of Foundation-Empire-Robots novels and short stories by Isaac Asimov, Roger MacBride Allen, and authorized others into a consistent framework. "
 Foundation's Triumph" includes an appendix chronology compiled by Attila Torkos.
Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
The Grand prix Jean Giono (French: Prix Jean Giono ) is a French literary prize.
 It was established in 1990 at the initiative of Michel Albert, to honour the writer Jean Giono.
 Since 1992 it consists of two categories: the Jean Giono Grand Prize (Grand prix Jean-Giono) and the Jury Prize (Prix du Jury).
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
 It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of "Science Fiction Quarterly" and was anthologized in the collections "Nine Tomorrows" (1959), "The Best of Isaac Asimov" (1973), "Robot Dreams" (1986), the retrospective "Opus 100" (1969), and in "Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol.
 1" (1990).
 It was Asimov's favorite short story of his own authorship, and is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac.
 The story overlaps science fiction, theology, and philosophy.
Foundation's Friends, Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov is a 1989 book written in honor of science fiction author Isaac Asimov, in the form of an anthology of short stories set in Asimov's universes, particularly the "Robot"/"Empire"/"Foundation" universe.
 The anthology was edited by Martin H. Greenberg, and contributing authors include Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Harry Turtledove, and Orson Scott Card.
 A "revised and expanded" edition was published in 1997, which added numerous memorials and appreciations written by those who knew him, many of them well-known authors and editors from the science fiction field.
Isaac Asimov ( ; born Isaak Ozimov; January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was a Russian-American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
 He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science.
 Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.
Wizards is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of wizards edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh.
 The first volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series, it was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in October 1983.
 It was later gathered together with "Witches", the second book in the series, into the omnibus hardcover collection "Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Witches & Wizards" (1985).
Isaac Asimov's Robot City is a series of novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's "Robot" series.
 It takes place between "The Robots of Dawn" and "Robots and Empire".
 Each volume is complete in itself, but they form a continuing series.
 The novels were written in response to a writing challenge issued by Asimov to write a series involving the Three Laws of Robotics, which brought about a collaboration of several authors.
 Asimov provided outlines for stories which filled in the gap between Asimov's own robot stories and his "Foundation" series, explaining the disappearance of the robots prior to the establishment of the galactic empire. "
Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens" followed in this series, with the same protagonists and many other characters.
 The common theme of all books of both series is the interaction between the characters and autonomous cities run and populated by robots (the "robot cities" of the series title).
 Robot City was also released as a mystery game for the PC in 1995.
 The player takes the role of Derec.