{"product_id":"9780008516260","title":"Pebble in the Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eCaught up in an experiment gone wrong, Joseph Schwartz is transported forward in time from post-war Chicago to the heyday of the first Galactic Empire.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarth, he soon learns, is a backwater, despised by the other two hundred million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it as the original home of man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eAsimov’s Galactic Empire novels are among the earliest stories by one of the twentieth century’s greatest visionaries. Filled with ideas and wonders, they are classic adventures from science fiction’s Golden Age.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsimov's Pebble in the Sky is a riveting space opera set in a post-apocalyptic Earth. The narrative, filled with time travel and exploration, is a hard-hitting commentary on survival and resilience, making it one of the best in the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Frank Herbert (Children Of Dune), Robert Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land), Dan Simmons (The Terror), James S. A. Corey (Nemesis Games), and Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins 2023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Isaac Asimov, Read by Jon Lindstrom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889065873557,"sku":"9780008516260","price":41.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008516260_340e843d-af1e-4abc-9555-263e73971805.jpg?v=1776888455","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008516260","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}