An Isaac Asimov novel published in 1950. It belongs to the cycle about the Trantorian Empire. It was also translated into Russian under the titles “Pebble in the Sky,” “A Grain of Sand in the Sky,” and “A Fragment of the Universe.”
In his first novel, “A Pebble in the Sky,” Isaac Asimov tells how a resident of Chicago, Joseph Schwartz, unexpectedly finds himself from the 20th century into the future. Many centuries later, Earth was reduced to the status of a remote province and became only a small part of the Galactic Empire. But the mother of all humankind did not accept her role as a minor planet; she constantly fought the Empire’s capital—Trantor. Unexpectedly for himself, Joseph Schwartz finds himself at the center of a conspiracy by Earth’s people against the Empire…