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One instant Joseph Schwartz is a gladly retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth through the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, simply a pebble in the sky, despised by the rest of the 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to promise it is the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining a lot of its garden soil - so poor that many people are sentenced to fatality at age 60.Joseph Schwartz is 62.This is young Isaac Asimov's first book, full of wonders and ideas, the publication that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Groundwork books and novels. Additionally it is one of that select group of SF adventures that because the early on 1950s has connected generations of young adults on reading technology fiction. This is Golden Era SF at its finest.