Pebble in the Sky

1950 scifi from novel Isaac Asimov, one of three of the Galactic Empire series, the first published but chronogically the last. His first novel altogether, in fact, although he'd published material from much of his later novels already in various magazines.
==Length==
About 211 standard pagesCounted the first 6 chapters from a version online and compared to my paperback..
==First read (26th-30th January 2014)==
===Format===
Orb paperback, 256 pages long.
===Journal===
Bought for me by Edwin for my birthday in 2013, along with Godel, Escher, Bach. I started reading it immediately after finishing The Green Mile in late January 2014.
Finished fairly quickly, on the 30th. I was miffed pretty early on by the absurd number of coincidences leading to the situation most of the book is about, then when it was mentioned explicitly by one of the characters I hoped it would be revealed to have been somehow engineered deliberately. But then... it just wasn't mentioned again. So that's a major gripe.
I'll be interested to see how the 'Galactic Empire trilogy' it makes with The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space works. This novel was the first published but it's always listed third, I think because it's chronologically last?
===Rating===
1
===Reading record===
Previous book: Stephen King, The Green Mile
Next book: Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust
Category:Science fiction books
Category:1950s books
Category:American books
Category:Books read in 2014
Category:Books with 1 rating
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