Pebble in the Sky

Name: Pebble in the Sky
Author: Isaac Asimov
ISBN: 0765319136

by Isaac Asimov

✓ ReadLikely Public DomainGalactic Empire

Originally published by Doubleday

Hurtled through time from 1949 Chicago to an Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire, retired tailor Joseph Schwartz finds himself on a backwater, insignificant planet with much of its land ruined by radioactivity and so poor that its inhabitants are sentenced to death at the age of sixty, and Joseph is sixty-two.

First published 1950260 pages

823.91

Category: Fantasy
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 16
Editions known: 42

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 823.91813.54
Library of Congress (LCC): PS3551.S5 P4 1982PS3551.S5 P42 1992PS3551.S5 PePS3551.S5 P4 2008

Subjects

Adventure storiesAmerican Fantasy fictionAmerican Science fictionCivilian reliefDystopiasFictionFiction in EnglishFiction, science fiction, generalRomans, nouvellesScience fictionSpace and timeTime

This edition

ISBN 0765319136English

DATE DUE

First published1950

Radio adaptation1951

StatusREAD

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