BOOK TITLE: Pebble in the Sky

AUTHOR: Isaac Asimov 

PUBLICATION: Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No 14 1953

CONDITION: cover has considerable wear (see photos); markup on front cover, top and bottom of book, and 1st page, otherwise clean inside; tanned pages; some pages have small holes/tears; binding is still intact

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BOOK SYNOPSIS: One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. 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 its people 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 that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.

Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.

This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation books and novels. It is also one of that select group of SF adventures that since the early 1950s has hooked generations of teenagers on reading science fiction. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.

 

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