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Description

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire... read more

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First Sentence

Two minutes before he disappeared forever from the face of the Earth he knew, Joseph Schwartz strolled along the pleasant streets of suburban Chicago quoting Browning to himself.

Series

This is book 3 in the Isaac Asimov Galactic Empire series.

This is book 19 in the Foundation Universe series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Isaac Asimov (Author)
 

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