Pebble in the sky
by Isaac Asimov
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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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Pebble in the sky
1992-01, Spectra/Bantam Books
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Pebble in the sky
1990, Doubleday
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Facsimile of the 1st ed. (1950) of the author's first novel, including reproduction of original dust jacket; with a new prefixed leaf serving as new t.p.; issued in a plain slipcase. The booklet is laid in the facsimile.
"This special edition ... is limited to 1500 numbered copies, signed by the author."
Booklet t.p. reads: Pebble in the sky / Isaac Asimov ; Isaac Asimov's first novel reissued by Doubleday in celebration of its fortieth anniversary ; with a new foreword by the author and an editor's note by Jennifer Brehl. New York : Doubleday, [c1990].
Library of Congress has copy no. 1260.
Source: Copyright deposit, Feb. 9, 1990.
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