Galactic Empire
Pebble in the Sky
About this book
*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.
Galactic Empire · 4 books
In publication order- Blind Alley 1945
- Pebble in the Sky 1950 This book
- The Stars, Like Dust 1951
- The Currents of Space 1952
Subjects
- adventure stories
- american fantasy fiction
- american science fiction
- civilian relief
- dystopias
- fiction
- fiction in english
- fiction, science fiction, general
- romans, nouvelles
- science fiction
- space and time
- time
- time travel
- world war, 1939-1945