Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov (2010, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100765319136
ISBN-139780765319135
eBay Product ID (ePID)70334318

Product Key Features

Book TitlePebble in the Sky
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / Space Opera, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year2010
GenreFiction
AuthorIsaac Asimov
FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight4.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-046430
Reviews"One of the world's premier science fiction writers." -- Newsday "Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer of the age." --Carl Sagan "For fifty years it was Isaac Asimov's tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed.... For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF." -- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "One of the world's premier science fiction writers." --Newsday "Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer of the age." --Carl Sagan "For fifty years it was Isaac Asimov's tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed…. For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF." --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, For fifty years it was Isaac Asimov's tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed.... For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisPebble in the Sky is the first novel by celebrated, multi-award winning science fiction Grand Master Isaac Asimov. Full of wonders and ideas, this is the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation books and novels. It is also one of that select group of SF adventures that since the early 1950s has hooked generations of teenagers on reading science fiction. This is Golden Age SF at its finest. One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, 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...
LC Classification NumberPS3551.S5P4 2009

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