Description

One second Paul Schwartz is just a cheerfully retired target in 1949 Detroit. The following he’s a stranger on The Planet throughout the zenith of the very first Galactic Empire. Planet, he quickly discovers, is really a backwater, only a stone in the atmosphere, since its people care to declare it’s the initial house of guy hated by the rest of the 200-million planets of the Kingdom. And Planet is poor, with excellent regions of radioactivity destroying a lot of its soil—so poor that most people are sentenced to death in the age of sixty.Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.This is youthful Isaac Asimov’s first story, saturated in miracles and suggestions, the book that introduced the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Building Blocks books and novels.