{"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.", "covers": [6550102, 5544319, 10375815, 10376627, 12227235, 10329743], "key": "/works/OL46402W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL34221A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "Pebble in the Sky", "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"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["Trantorian empire (Ficticious place)"], "latest_revision": 21, "revision": 21, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T11:34:21.437031"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-27T23:16:55.730745"}}