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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.

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Pebble in the Sky

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperVoyager
      Published 8 August 2019
      ISBN-13 9780008372354
      978-0008372354
      ISBN-10 0008372357
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      Fiction Science Fiction Sci-Fi Books by Isaac Asimov

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review

      ‘Isaac Asimov was one of the great explainers of the age…It will never be known how many practicing scientists today, in how many countries, owe their initial inspiration to a book, article, or short story by Isaac Asimov’
      Carl Sagan

      ‘Asimov displayed one of the most dynamic imaginations in science fiction’
      Daily Telegraph

      ‘Asimov’s career was one of the most formidable in science fiction’
      The Times

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