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Pebble in the Sky is the first novel by celebrated, multi-award winning science fiction Grand Master Isaac Asimov. Full of wonders and ideas, this is 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. 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...

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One of the world's premier science fiction writers. --Newsday Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer of the age. --Carl Sagan For fifty years it was Isaac Asimov's tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed.... For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF. --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

One of the world's premier science fiction writers. <br> --Newsday <br> Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer of the age. <br>--Carl Sagan <br> For fifty years it was Isaac Asimov's tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed.... For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF. <br> --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

<p> One of the world's premier science fiction writers. <br> --Newsday<br><br> Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer of the age. <br>--Carl Sagan<br><br> For fifty years it was Isaac Asimov's tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed.... For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF. <br> --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

<p>&#8220;One of the world&#8217;s premier science fiction writers.&#8221;<br> --Newsday <br> &#8220;Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer of the age.&#8221;<br>--Carl Sagan <br>&#8220;For fifty years it was Isaac Asimov&#8217;s tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed&#8230;. For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF.&#8221;<br> --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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Born in Russia, Isaac Asimov lived in Boston and in New York City for most of his life. He died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two.

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