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Pebble in the Sky

byIsaac Asimov

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy classic science fiction with themes of time travel and societal critique.

Topics SurvivalIdentityPower
MoodReflective, Suspenseful
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.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.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.And Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.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.

Language

en

Published on

08/08/2019

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780008372354

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