"network broadcast a much abbreviated radio dramatization of ""Pebble in the Sky"" in the science fiction anthology series ""Dimension X"". In this much abbreviated version (only 25 minutes), the whole story of time travel was cut out with Bel and Pola being the main characters. The ending was quite different, since the virus was released, leaving Earth alone as ""a pebble in the sky"". Pebble in the Sky Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1950. This work is his first novel — parts of the ""Foundation"" series had appeared from"
"in his own name (""David Starr, Space Ranger"" was published before ""The Currents of Space"", but had been published under his pen name ""Paul French"", and the ""Foundation"" books were collections of linked short stories rather than continuous novels). ""Pebble in the Sky"" was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title ""Grow Old with Me"" for ""Startling Stories"", whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine. The title was a misquotation of Robert Browning's ""Rabbi ben Ezra"", the first few lines of which (starting ""Grow old"
"All the Birds in the Sky All the Birds in the Sky is a 2016 science fantasy novel by American writer and editor Charlie Jane Anders. It is her debut speculative fiction novel and was first published in January 2016 in the United States by Tor Books. The book is about a witch and a techno-geek, their troubled relationship, and their attempts to save the world from disaster. The publisher described the work as ""blending literary fantasy and science fiction"". The novel was generally well received by critics. It won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2017 IAFA"
"Islands in the Sky Islands in the Sky is a 1952 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is one of his earliest works. Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century. This is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that make up the Winston Science Fiction series that was published in the 1950s for a readership of teenagers. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was"
"did not appear in ""Startling"" was Isaac Asimov's ""Pebble in the Sky"", which Merwin had commissioned from Asimov in the early summer of 1947. After the unusual step of allowing the editor to twice read the work-in-progress and receiving nothing but approval, Asimov delivered a completed draft in September. This time, Merwin asked for revisions: Leo Margulies, Merwin's boss, had decided that ""Startling"" needed to focus more on action and adventure in the style of ""Amazing"", and less on cerebral stories in the style of ""Astounding"". Asimov, ""for the first and only time of [his] life...openly lost [his] temper with"
"Eagle in the Sky Eagle in the Sky is a novel by Wilbur Smith, published in 1974. The book sold 600,000 copies in the first six months. A 14-year-old David Morgan, handsome and academically gifted heir to a South African business empire and fortune, learns to fly with Barney Venter, a gruff but experienced ex-airline pilot. He realises that David is 'bird' - blessed with a natural flying ability. David learns quickly and soon gains his pilot's licence. After school, he opts to join the South African Air Force instead of going to university and business school. He impresses his"
"Eye in the Sky (novel) Eye in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, originally published in 1957. After an accident at the Belmont Bevatron, eight people are forced into several different alternate universes. These ersatz universes are later revealed to be solipsistic manifestations of each individual's innermost fears and prejudices, bringing the story in line with Dick's penchant for subjective realities. As well as his future discussions of theology and fears about McCarthy-era authoritarianism, the novel skewers several human foibles. The title refers to the eye of God, who appears as a character"
"Her first book was ""Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air"" (1861), a collection of stories about seven young girls who live in different, unusual places. The book was immensely popular; it sold nearly half a million copies over the next century and was translated into Chinese, German, and Japanese. It was followed by a sequel, ""Each and All: Seven Little Sisters Prove Their Sisterhood"" (1877), and a similar book about boys in different historical time periods, ""Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road From Long Ago to Now"" (1886). She also wrote"
"for the original novels it printed. The magazine was originally intended to be a vehicle for reprinting novels. The title and format were an echo of ""Two Complete Detective Books Magazine"", which had been published, also by Fiction House, in the 1930s. The first issue included Isaac Asimov's ""Pebble in the Sky"", and L. Ron Hubbard's ""The Kingslayer"". Both of these were reprints: ""Pebble in the Sky"" had been published by Doubleday earlier in the year, and ""The Kingslayer"" had appeared in Hubbard's short story collection ""The Kingslayer"", published by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., in 1949. Subsequent issues abandoned the"
"The Moon in the Cloud The Moon in the Cloud is a light-hearted children's historical fantasy novel by Rosemary Harris, published by Faber in 1968. It is set in ancient Canaan and Egypt at the time of the Biblical Flood and rooted in the story of Noah's Ark. It is the first book of a series sometimes called the Egyptian trilogy, followed by ""The Shadow on the Sun"" (1970) and ""The Bright and Morning Star"" (1972). Harris won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Macmillan published the first"
"Death in the Clouds Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on 10 March 1935 under the title of Death in the Air and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the July of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Chief Inspector Japp. Hercule Poirot travels back to England on the midday flight from Paris"
"January 1950 as ""Pebble in the Sky"". ""Grow Old With Me"" was later published in its original form along with other draft stories in ""The Alternate Asimovs"" in 1986. ""The Stars, Like Dust"" was originally serialised under the title ""Tyrann"" in ""Galaxy Science Fiction"" from January to March 1951, and was published as a novel by Doubleday later that year. The first paperback edition was an Ace Books double novel along with Roger Dee's ""An Earth Gone Mad""; ""The Stars, Like Dust"" was retitled ""The Rebellious Stars"" for this edition without Asimov's consent. The novel was reprinted in with the"
"(40,000 words), but requested that it be extended to a full novel of 70,000 words. The book appeared under the Doubleday imprint in January 1950 with the title of ""Pebble in the Sky"". Doubleday published five more original science fiction novels by Asimov in the 1950s, along with the six juvenile Lucky Starr novels, the latter under the pseudonym of ""Paul French"". Doubleday also published collections of Asimov's short stories, beginning with ""The Martian Way and Other Stories"" in 1955. The early 1950s also saw Gnome Press publish one collection of Asimov's positronic robot stories as ""I, Robot"" and his"
"and 1964 by Bantam, in 1958 and 1982 by Corgi as the first British edition, in 1968 by Sidgwick & Jackson in hardcover, in 1969, 1972, 1974 (both paper and hard cover editions) and 1981 by Sphere Science Fiction, in 1971 and 1975 by Fawcett Books, in 1983 by Del Rey Books, in 1986 in hardcover by Grafton and in 1990 again by Doubleday in hardcover; in addition, it was reprinted as part of the ""Empire"" series, in 1986 by Ballantine Books, in 1992 by Spectra and in 2010 by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions. ""Pebble in"
"Dans le ciel Dans le ciel (In the Sky) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau. First published in serialized installments in ""L'Écho de Paris"" between September 1892 and May 1893, ""Dans le ciel"", assembled and edited by Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nivet, first appeared its present form in 1989. English translation : ""In the Sky"", Nine-Banded Books, Charleston, 2015. Translation : Ann Sterzinger. Introduction : Claire Nettleton. Inspired by the art of the Impressionists – using Claude Monet and, mainly, Vincent van Gogh as models for its central characters –, ""Dans le ciel"""
"He Shall Thunder in the Sky He Shall Thunder in the Sky (2000) (also published as Thunder in the Sky) is the 12th in a series of historical mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters, featuring fictional archaeologist and sleuth Amelia Peabody. The novel takes place in 1914, as Ramses Emerson works undercover to gather intelligence for the British military, Nefret returns from studying medicine in Switzerland, and Percy Peabody returns to wreak revenge on the Emerson family for past events. The Emerson have acquired the ""firman"" for part of the Giza concession, but of course are distracted by the criminal element,"
"serialised in three parts in the January, February, and March 1951 issues. It was published as a novel on February 15 of that year by Doubleday with the title ""The Stars, Like Dust"". It was first published as a paperback in 1954 with the title ""The Rebellious Stars"": but this version of the story was heavily cut without Asimov's permission and was bound together with ""An Earth Gone Mad"" by Roger Dee. The story is set long before ""Pebble in the Sky"", but it was written one year later. The Trantorian Empire is not directly mentioned; it would be located"
"A Deepness in the Sky A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel ""A Fire Upon the Deep"" (1992). The title is coined by one of the story's main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of his species and to the vastness of space. The plot begins with the discovery of an intelligent alien species on a planet orbiting an anomalous star, dubbed OnOff because for 215 of every 250"
"starred first. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1960, at one point serving as an understudy for Vanessa Redgrave, before leaving to pursue a career in literary studies and writing. As of 2016, Drabble has published 19 novels. Her first, ""A Summer Bird Cage"", was published in 1963. Her early novels were published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1963–87); more recently, her publishers have been Penguin and Viking. Her third novel, ""The Millstone"" (1965), brought her the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1966, and ""Jerusalem the Golden"" won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1967. She"
"Sattin Shore"" (1983). ""The Shadow Cage and other tales of the supernatural"" (1977), ""Bubble and Squeak"", and ""Sattin Shore"" were the later three of her four Carnegie Medal runners-up. ""The Battle of Bubble and Squeak"" inspired a two-part television adaptation in Channel 4's ""Talk, Write and Read"" series of educational programming. Although not a prolific author of full-length books, Philippa Pearce continued to work over subsequent years, as well as speaking at conferences, editing anthologies and writing short stories. She attended a 2002 reception for children's authors at Number 10 Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister. In 2004"
"The Alternate Asimovs The Alternate Asimovs (1986) is a collection of early science fiction drafts by American writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov mostly threw away early drafts. Just a few survived and were included in this anthology. It consists of three items: This is a shorter and less refined version of the book ""Pebble in the Sky""; set in the very early days of the Trantorian Empire whose eventual decline had been described in the Foundation novels. The plot is largely the same, though the chief villain is less developed. Asimov also explained how he began with the idea that Earth"
"period"" (often 60 years) became a recurring theme in 20th century imaginative literature—for example, Isaac Asimov's 1950 novel ""Pebble in the Sky"". In the 3rd edition of his Textbook, he also coined the description of pneumonia as ""the old man's friend"" since it allowed elderly individuals a quick, comparatively painless death. Coincidentally, Osler himself died of pneumonia. An inveterate prankster, he wrote several humorous pieces under the pseudonym ""Egerton Yorrick Davis"", even fooling the editors of the ""Philadelphia Medical News"" into publishing a report on the extremely rare phenomenon of ""penis captivus"", on December 13, 1884. The letter was apparently"
"16 February (Volume 29, Number 736) to 23 March 1935 (Volume 29, Number 741) under the title ""Mystery in the Air"". There were no chapter divisions and all of the instalments carried illustrations by Clive Uptton. Death in the Clouds Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on 10 March 1935 under the title of Death in the Air and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the July of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed"
"of the novel. This could indicate a possible link to the Empire Series. The first Empire novel, ""Pebble in the Sky"", was written in 1947, the year before ""Mother Earth"". A major theme of the story is the way in which the Spacers have closed their thinly populated worlds to Earth's crowded inhabitants. This was not an abstraction to Isaac Asimov, who was born in the village of Petrovichi in Russia. When he was three, his parents were able to emigrate to the USA, shortly before severe restrictions were placed on the immigration of Russian and East European Jews. He"
"Bel Arvardan Bel Arvardan is a fictional character in ""Pebble in the Sky"", a part of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series of stories and novels. He was born in the year 792 of the Galactic Era (792 G.E.) on the planet Baronn, located in the Sirius sector. At age 23, Arvardan became the youngest person to graduate as Senior Archaeologist at the University of Arcturus. He was also the first person to have his senior dissertation, entitled ""On the Antiquity of Artifacts in the Sirius Sector with Considerations of the Application There of to the Radiation Hypothesis of Human Origin,"" rejected"
"his colleague Ben Bova in the book ""Notes to a Science Fiction Writer"". His first science fiction story ""Casey Agonistes"" immediately established him as a writer to be watched when it appeared in the September 1958 issue of ""The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"". Only a handful of his science fiction tales were published during his lifetime, but after his death several more appeared posthumously. McKenna's major work was ""The Sand Pebbles"" (1962), a 597-page novel later made into the well-known 1966 film of the same title. The protagonist was an enlisted career sailor on a U.S. Navy river"
"Philip Ardagh Philip Ardagh (born 11 September 1961, Kent) is an English children's author, primarily known for the Eddie Dickens series of books. He has written more than 100 books including adult fiction and children's non-fiction. During 2004 and 2005 Ardagh collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney and illustrator-animator Geoff Dunbar to create McCartney's first children's book, ""High in the Clouds"". Published simultaneously in the UK and US and other countries in October 2005, there was an initial print run of half-a-million copies in the United States. ""The Observer"" called it ""a tale about the perils of unchecked global capitalism"". Philip"
"Film rights were bought by producer Michael Klinger who made several movies based on Smith novels. In the early 1980s, it was announced a film version would be shot in Israel starring Pia Zadora. However, as of 2013 no film has resulted. Eagle in the Sky Eagle in the Sky is a novel by Wilbur Smith, published in 1974. The book sold 600,000 copies in the first six months. A 14-year-old David Morgan, handsome and academically gifted heir to a South African business empire and fortune, learns to fly with Barney Venter, a gruff but experienced ex-airline pilot. He realises"
"first novel, ""A Fine and Private Place"", when he was only 19 years old, following it with a memoir, ""I See by My Outfit"", in 1965. Today he is best known as the author of ""The Last Unicorn"" and ""A Fine and Private Place"", as well as his later fantasies following ""The Folk of the Air"". ""The Wind in the Willows"", a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, had originally attracted him to the genre of fantasy. In the 1970s, Beagle turned to screenwriting. After writing an introduction for an American print edition of ""The Lord of the Rings"","
"Island in the Sky (comics) Island in the Sky is a funny animal comic book story written and drawn by Carl Barks. It was published in ""Uncle Scrooge"" #29, March 1960. The asteroid 2730 Barks was named after Barks by a scientist at Cornell University who was inspired by the story. Scrooge and his nephews go on a quest in outer space to find an island in space to store his money on. They land on a small asteroid occupied by aliens and (normal) birds. Donald accidentally chases the birds away to a nearby planet, and with them, the only"
"In the Wet In The Wet is a novel by Nevil Shute that was first published in the United Kingdom in 1953. It contains many of the typical elements of a hearty and adventurous Shute yarn such as flying, the future, mystic states, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The story is opened by its initial narrator – an Anglican priest in the Bush Brotherhood named Roger Hargreaves – who describes his ordinary circumstances in a large parish of the Australian outback in 1953. As part of his duties, he has to minister to the dying and this brings him"
"arts, and a public inhospitable to change. Dans le ciel Dans le ciel (In the Sky) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau. First published in serialized installments in ""L'Écho de Paris"" between September 1892 and May 1893, ""Dans le ciel"", assembled and edited by Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nivet, first appeared its present form in 1989. English translation : ""In the Sky"", Nine-Banded Books, Charleston, 2015. Translation : Ann Sterzinger. Introduction : Claire Nettleton. Inspired by the art of the Impressionists – using Claude Monet and, mainly, Vincent van Gogh as models for"
"of humans is left uncertain. It was reviewed by ""Science Reporter"" and ""Fantasy Review"". The Alternate Asimovs The Alternate Asimovs (1986) is a collection of early science fiction drafts by American writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov mostly threw away early drafts. Just a few survived and were included in this anthology. It consists of three items: This is a shorter and less refined version of the book ""Pebble in the Sky""; set in the very early days of the Trantorian Empire whose eventual decline had been described in the Foundation novels. The plot is largely the same, though the chief villain"