โ Scribed by Isaac Asimov
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
One of the worlds premier science fiction writers.
*--Newsday
*Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer of the age.
--Carl Sagan
For fifty years it was Isaac Asimovs tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed. For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF.
--The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next hes a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim its the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soilso poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.
Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.
This is young Isaac Asimovs first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation books and novels. It is also one of that select group of SF adventures that since the early 1950s has hooked generations of teenagers on reading science fiction. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.
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