Title Page: "Pebble in the Sky" by Isaac Asimov. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1950. First edition. Author's First Novel
It began when retired tailor Joseph Schwartz was walking down a street in Chicago, past the Institute for Nuclear Research. He raised one foot in the twentieth century; he lowered it in Galactic Era 827, the victim of an odd accident inside the Institute involving an experiment with crude uranium.
Schwartz awoke to a strange world -- he was still on Earth, but at a time when all the planets of the Galaxy were inhabited, and the people of Earth were outcasts, suffering vindictive discrimination because their tiny world was radioactive. Then, strangely, he found himself the only man who could avert an impending cosmic disaster. But Schwartz, homesick and confused, wasn't sure he even cared!
Title Page: "Pebble in the Sky" by Isaac Asimov. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1950. First edition. Author's First Novel
It began when retired tailor Joseph Schwartz was walking down a street in Chicago, past the Institute for Nuclear Research. He raised one foot in the twentieth century; he lowered it in Galactic Era 827, the victim of an odd accident inside the Institute involving an experiment with crude uranium.
Schwartz awoke to a strange world -- he was still on Earth, but at a time when all the planets of the Galaxy were inhabited, and the people of Earth were outcasts, suffering vindictive discrimination because their tiny world was radioactive. Then, strangely, he found himself the only man who could avert an impending cosmic disaster. But Schwartz, homesick and confused, wasn't sure he even cared!