- Fiction in English, American Science fiction, Science fiction, Dystopias
*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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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Sidgwick and Jackson, Ithaki Yayinlari
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, German
- ISBN
- 9780765319128
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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.”
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942
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