Pebble in the sky

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  • Author: Asimov, Isaac
    Contributor:

    Fass, Robert

    Summary:

    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 two hundred 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.

    Genre: Dystopian fiction, Science fiction
    Subject(s): Time travel
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] , Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9780792760504

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    0792760506

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    9781609988333

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    1609988337

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DC Contributor

Fass, Robert

Abstract

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 two hundred 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.

Genre
Dystopian fiction
Science fiction
Subject
Time travel
Publisher (Source)

[Ashland, Oregon]

Blackstone Publishing

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