Pebble in the Sky
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Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, despised by the other two hundred million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it as the original home of man.
And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil тАУ so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.
And Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.
AsimovтАЩs Galactic Empire novels are among the earliest stories by one of the twentieth centuryтАЩs greatest visionaries. Filled with ideas and wonders, they are classic adventures from science fictionтАЩs Golden Age.
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Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Russia and was brought to the USA by his parents three years later. He grew up in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University. After a short spell in the army, he gained a doctorate and worked in academia and chemical research.
AsimovтАЩs career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the short story тАШMarooned Off VestaтАЩ. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day. Asimov wrote hundreds of short stories and novels, including the iconic I, Robot and Foundation. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once.
Apart from his world-famous science fiction, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, and textbooks, as well as two volumes of autobiography.
Asimov died in 1992 at the age of 72.
