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It is the first novel by asimov but his talent is already evident even if the plot is still rough on the edges

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The protagonist surname and his attitude remind us that the novel was written in almost immediate aftetmath of wwii and the holocaust

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And earth is one of the very least of those worlds merely a pebble in the sky home to only twenty million people most of them ignorant peasants subjugated by the imperial bureaucracy

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And almost all of them are filled with rage against the empire because against all sense they know that earth is the original home of the species

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I won’t give away the turning point of the plot but i will say that asimov has a lot of fun with the overlapping conspiracies which are completely misunderstood by those on all sides

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In the book the reader encounters a 62yearold retired extailor joseph schwartz who is walking down the street in modernday i

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And through a series of wild coincidences and unlikely misreadings the ancients soon come to believe that schwartz as well as visiting sirian archeologist bel arvardan not to mention shekt and his young daughter pola are all galactic spies out to stop them