Isaac Asimov - Pebble In The Sky

Blurb: One moment joseph Schwartz was a happily retired tailer in Chicago, 1949. The next he was a helpless stranger on the Earth during the heyday of the Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learned, was a backwater, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dared to claim it was the original home of man. And earth was poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil - so poor that everyone was sentanced to death at the age of sixty. And Schwartz was sixty-two!

Why: .. i’ve run out of stuff to read.. it was one of the first i pulled off the shelf in our back-room!

Thoughts so far: Wow.. Asimov sure can do it. I mean, for a book written in the 50’s i think, it’s out there. What i found most interesting was the afterword, where he discusses how he (and others) believed that the earth was generally radioactive, and that most humans could survive in such an environment (as were the earth-people in the novel).. he understand that not to be true in the afterword (’82) .. but unfortunately couldn’t change the story as it is a key in the plot. Great book :)

Posted by Christian 27 January 2003

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