num_pages: 231
description: One moment Joseph Schwartz was a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next day he was a helpless stranger on the Earth during the heyday of the Galactic Empire.Earth, as he soon learned, was a backwater world, 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 sentenced to death at the age of sixty.Schwartz was sixty-two!
language: English
title: Pebble in the Sky
titlecomplete: Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)
characters: Joseph Schwartz
genres: Audiobook, Novels, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera
ratings_count: 23825
series: Galactic Empire, Greater Foundation Universe
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine