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Pebble in the Sky
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0765319128
- ISBN 13
- 9780765319128
- Seller
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About This Item
Tor Books, 2008-01-08. Hardcover. Like New. 8x5x1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 255 pages ; 22 cm <br> One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as 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 series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.
Synopsis
Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, published in 1950. This work is his first novel — parts of the Foundation series had appeared from 1942 onwards, in magazines, but Foundation was not published in book form until 1951. The original Foundation books are also a string of linked episodes, whereas this is a complete story involving a single group of characters.
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- Bookseller
- SequiturBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2209280019
- Title
- Pebble in the Sky
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0765319128
- ISBN 13
- 9780765319128
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008-01-08
- Size
- 8x5x1
- X weight
- 7 oz
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