Pebble in the Sky

Author: Isaac Asimov

ISBN: 9780586069523

Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction,

Published year: 1987

Binding: Paperback

Description: <p>Caught up in an experiment gone wrong, Joseph Schwartz is transported forward in time from post-war Chicago to the heyday of the first Galactic Empire.</p> <p>Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, despised by the other two hundred million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it as the original home of man.</p> <p>And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil - so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.</p> <p>And Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.</p> <p>Asimov's Galactic Empire novels are among the earliest stories by one of the twentieth century's greatest visionaries. Filled with ideas and wonders, they are classic adventures from science fiction's Golden Age.</p>

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