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    <body><![CDATA[My husband I read this one together because we've been exploring some of the classic science fiction authors. This one didn't make me want to ever read another Asimov again. I was really looking forward to finishing it by the time we were half-way through. I get that Asimov was all about exploring i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73468187">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Asimov book I have read and in that way maybe it is fitting that I read his first book.  The novel is a picture of Earth 5000 years in the future from the perspective of a man carried from his mid century life on Earth into that distant future time by an odd accident.<br/><br/>I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62908911">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I am pleased to have stumbled upon Isaac Asimov. <br/>This is the second book I have read by him. Incredibly interesting.<br/>Schwartz is simply walking down the street in Chicago when suddenly he finds himself in a completely different place. Unbeknownst to him, he has time-traveled many tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51264862">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is set on a radioactive Earth, where city names have been slightly, but not entirely, changed. Earth is the armpit of the galaxy. The ancients of Earth claim that all human life comes from there, while others believe that humans started independently on a multitude of planets.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75362296">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Asimov's first book has just been reissued by Tor. I really enjoyed this novel, and am amazed at Asimov's scope of vision and how well this book written in 1950 holds up in the 21st century. Previous to this, I read Asimov's last book in the Robot series, which was written in the mid 1980s. In it, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34526779">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was ok.  It was about a man from the 1950's who for no reason, travels forward in time thousands of years.  In this future time, humans are on countless planets and have forgoten the Earth was were humans originated.<br/><br/>This book had too many characters.  Then, many of the characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65708231">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Been a long, long time since I read this. Premis: man zapped into future, Earth is radioactive, the population is euthenized at age 60. Very good. Picked this kind of at random, spur of the moment to do a high school book report and was surprised. I think it was the first or second time I ever read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43235632">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First read it more than 10 years ago, read it again last month, as part of an Asimov reading marathon in a week. In a single week, read the following three Asimov books: <br/><br/>Pebble in the Sky<br/>Currents of Space<br/>Stars, Like Dust<br/><br/>All three books were written in the early 50...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79190909">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Empire - book ONE (1)<br/>&quot;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 millio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27126143">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While it starts a bit slow and gets bogged down in technicalities (I'm a fan of chess, but a whole game relayed through Queen to Bishop 3 gets a bit tedious), it is an interesting book. Worth the read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first official science fiction book. ]]></body>
    
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