Pebble in the Sky

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Author(s):

Isaac Asimov

First Pub:

1950

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2019

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 22

1 - Between One Footstep and the Next

2 - The Disposal of a Stranger

3 - One World - or Many?

4 - The Royal Road

5 - The Involuntary Volunteer

6 - Apprehension in the Night

7 - Conversation with Madmen?

8 - Convergence at Chica

9 - Conflict at Chica

10 - Interpretation of Events

11 - The Mind that Changed

12 - The Mind that Killed

13 - Spider Web at Washenn

14 - Second Meeting

15 - The Odds That Vanished

16 - Choose Your Side!

17 - Change Your Side!

18 - Duel!

19 - The Deadline That Approached

20 - The Deadline That Was Reached

21 - The Deadline That Passed

22 - The Best Is Yet to Be

Internal ID:

2690

Series:

The Stars, Like Dust ->

Galactic Empire*

#1 of 3

Galactic Empire*

A series of novels by Isaac Asimov

View this series in the book list

1) Pebble in the Sky
2) The Stars, Like Dust
3) The Currents of Space

Copyright:

Dedication:

To my father,
who first introduced me to science fiction

First Sentence:

Two minutes before he disappeared forever from the face of the Earth he knew, Joseph Schwartz strolled along the pleasant streets of suburban Chicago quoting Browning to himself.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

"The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made..."

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Added: 14-Dec-2019

Last Updated: 28-Apr-2022

Publications

14-Feb-2012

Blackstone Audio, Inc

Book on CD

Date Issued:

14-Feb-2012

Format:

Book on CD

Cover Price:

$25.00

Length:

8 hrs 6 min (246 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 10 Jul 2019 - 12 Jul 2019

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2546

Publisher:

Blackstone Audio, Inc

ISBN:

1-609-98833-7

ISBN-13:

978-1-609-98833-3

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Robert Fass - Narration

From amazon.com:

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.

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Notes and Comments:

Author(s)

Isaac Asimov
Birth: 02 Jan 1920 Petrovichi, Russia
Death: 06 Apr 1992 New York, USA

Notes:

Contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion during a triple bypass heart surgery.

Awards

1951

World Science Fiction Society

Hugo Award - Best Novel

Nominee

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