One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because
Pebble in the Sky
โ Scribed by Isaac Asimov
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- UND
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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