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Title details for Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov - Available

Pebble in the Sky

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by Isaac Asimov
Robert Fass
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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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Galactic Empire

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 1, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792762379
      • File size: 233728 KB
      • Duration: 08:06:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Robert Fass executes a straightforward and crisp narration of Asimov's 1950 novel about the dominance of a galactic empire and Earth's repeated challenges to reestablish itself as a hegemonic force. While an anthropologist works to determine the origin planet of human life, an Earth scientist begins improving human mental capabilities. All the while, the politics on the radioactive yet resilient Earth are heating up. Fass successfully juggles a range of colorful characters by establishing distinct speaking patterns for the different groups of human. His matter-of-fact narration helps acclimate listeners to an Earth that is both familiar and alien. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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