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the magazine's emphasis was more on adventure than science-heavy fiction (despite the editor inviting Asimov to write the latter as an experiment for the magazine), and again by John W. Campbell, Asimov's usual editor. In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion of Frederik Pohl, on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title changed to something more science fiction oriented, and it was published in January 1950 as "Pebble in the Sky". "Grow Old
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 1942 onwards in magazines, but "Foundation" was not published in book form until 1951. The original "Foundation" books are also a string of linked episodes, whereas this is a complete story involving a single group of characters.
Publication history.
"Pebble in the Sky" was originally written