Title: Pebble in the Sky
Description: *Pebble in the Sky* is Asimov's first full length novel. It begins with a retired tailor from the mid-20th Century, who is accidentally pitched forward into the future. By then, Earth has become radioactive and is a low-status part of a vast Galactic Empire. There is both a mystery and a power-struggle, and a lot of debate and human choices. The originality of the S.F. work is the choice of a very ordinary man as the story's protagonist, rather than the more typical space opera hero.
Subjects: Fiction in English, American Science fiction, Science fiction, Dystopias, Time travel, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Space and time, Romans, nouvelles, American Fantasy fiction, Adventure stories, Time, World War, 1939-1945, Civilian relief
Places: Trantorian empire (Ficticious place)