Pebble in the Sky
A Galactic Empire Novel
by Isaac Asimov
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After getting caught in a freak nuclear research accident, Joseph Schwartz finds himself in a foreign time where following the cultural norms could prove to be fatal!
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1992-01, Spectra/Bantam Books
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Pebble in the Sky: A Galactic Empire Novel
January 12, 1986, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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"Two minutes before he dissappeared from the face of the Earth he knew, Joseph Schwartz strolled along the pleasant streets of suburban Chicago quoting Browning to himself."
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Pebble in the Sky is Asimov's first full length novel. It begins with a retired tailor from the mid-20th Century, who is accidentally pitched forward into the future. By then, Earth has become radioactive and is a low-status part of a vast Galactic Empire. There is both a mystery and a power-struggle, and a lot of debate and human choices. The originality of the S.F. work is the choice of a very ordinary man as the story's protagonist, rather than the more typical space opera hero.
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| September 30, 2024 | Edited by MARC Bot | fix TOC |
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