Pebble in the Sky
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One moment JosephSchwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's ahelpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first GalacticEmpire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky,despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because itspeople dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor,with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor thateveryone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.Thisis young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, thebook that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in theFoundation books and novels. It is also one of that select group of SFadventures that since the early 1950s has hooked generations ofteenagers on reading science fiction. This is Golden Age SF at itsfinest
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Language
- English
- Series
- Trantorian Empire 01
- ISBN
- 9780449234235
- Release date
- 1982
