Pebble in the Sky

Isaac Asimov

Apr 2010 · Galactic Empire Book 3 · Macmillan

About this ebook

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.



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Ratings and reviews

I had never heard of this book until I was reading on article on Asimov. I ordered it and once I started I found I could not put it down. I read it in one night. Now I'm going back and rereading some of his other works.

Azimov is still the greatest. From an insignificant author to the very father of galaxies of thought - across these many years, thanks for your inspiration!

Somehow i had missed the Empire books - now rediscovering how brilliant Asimov's writing is <3

About the author

Isaac Asimov was one of the great SF writers of the 20th century, and his hundreds of books introduced many thousands of readers to science fiction. Born in Brooklyn, he lived in Boston and in New York City for most of his life.