Signed Isaac Asimov 1990 Pebble in the Sky Limited Facsimile Edition HC w/DJ Без бренда

Signed Isaac Asimov 1990 Pebble in the Sky Limited Facsimile Edition HC w/DJ Без бренда
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Характеристики

Binding Hardcover
Subject Literature & Fiction
Topic Science Fiction
Character Family Pebble in the Sky
Year Printed 1990
Publisher Doubleday
Place of Publication New York
Author Isaac Asimov
Region North America
Language English
Country/Region of Manufacture United States
Original/Facsimile Original
Special Attributes 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Limited Edition, Signed, Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky, Facsimile Edition
Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1990. 223 pgs. Facsimile reprint. Of a sequence copy out of a limited edition of 1500. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the limitation page with booklet with new foreward by the author an Editor's note laid in. Slipcase in excellent shape. DJ in excellent shape, unclipped and with no tears present with some light toning present to the rear panel. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's 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 it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil, so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. This is young Isaac Asimov's 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.

Signed Isaac Asimov 1990 Pebble in the Sky Limited Facsimile Edition HC w/DJ





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Up For Sale Today is

Pebble in the Sky
40th Anniversary Reissue

by

Isaac Asimov

Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1990. 223 pgs.  Facsimile reprint. Of a sequence copy out of a limited edition of 1500. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the limitation page with booklet with new foreward by the author an Editor's note laid in.

Slipcase in excellent shape. DJ in excellent shape, unclipped and with no tears present with some light toning present to the rear panel. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. 
 
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's 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 it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil, so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.

This is young Isaac Asimov's 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.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

Isaac Asimov (born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov; circa January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.

Asimov wrote hard science fiction and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novels are explicitly set in earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. Later, beginning with Foundation's Edge, he linked this distant future to the Robot and Spacer stories, creating a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He wrote hundreds of short stories, including the social science fiction "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.

Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much nonfiction. Most of his popular science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Examples include Guide to Science, the three-volume set Understanding Physics, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery, as well as works on astronomy, mathematics, history, William Shakespeare's writing, and chemistry.

Asimov was a long-time member and vice president of Mensa International, albeit reluctantly; he described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs". He took more joy in being president of the American Humanist Association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, a crater on the planet Mars, a Brooklyn elementary school, and a literary award are named in his honor.

 

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