In the 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky, science fiction novel writer Isaac Asimov depicted a future Earth with a largely radioactive crust, humans precariously surviving in the uncontaminated areas in between.

* Bel Arvardan, in Isaac Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky

There is a reference back to the events of Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky: we learn that the restoration of Earth's soil was indeed attempted but was abandoned.

The radioactive-Earth theme was begun in Pebble in the Sky, which is set thousands of years earlier.

The first time it was acknowledged in novel form was in Pebble in the Sky.

This situation had already existed for thousands of years at the time of Pebble in the Sky, the next chronological book on this timeline.

The series is set in the same universe as Asimov's first published novel, Pebble in the Sky, although Foundation takes place approximately ten thousand years later.

Pebble in the Sky became the basis for the Empire series.

This precept was maintained in the pages of his later novel Pebble in the Sky, wherein Imperial archaeologist Bel Arvardan refers to ancient human strata discovered in the Sirius sector dating back " some 50, 000 years ".

Asimov later integrated the Robot Series into his all-engulfing Foundation series, making R. Daneel Olivaw appear again twenty thousand years later in the age of the Galactic Empire, in sequels and prequels to the original Foundation trilogy ; and in the final book of the Robots series — Robots and Empire — we learn how the worlds that later formed the Empire were settled, and how Earth became radioactive ( which was first mentioned in Pebble in the Sky ).

First edition cover of Pebble in the Sky

* Pebble in the Sky ( 1950 ), his first novel

In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on Frederik Pohl, on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title changed to something more science fiction oriented ; it was published in January of 1950 as Pebble in the Sky.

* Pebble in the Sky at Worlds Without End

He had already included a kind of time-travel in his 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky, though there it was a one-way trip.

The mechanism of time travel is most likely not that stumbled across in Pebble In The Sky, considering Harlan's words about the energy requirement for the Temporal Field.

It is predicted that the Earth will end up mostly radioactive, as per The Stars Like Dust and Pebble In The Sky.

Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1950.

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.

In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on 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 of 1950 as Pebble in the Sky.

In Before the Golden Age, Asimov wrote that Pebble in the Sky was influenced by the short story " Proxima Centauri " by Murray Leinster.

Pebble in the Sky was also included in a number of omnibuses: first in 1952 in Triangle along with the others in the Empire series ( The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space which had only been published earlier that year ), in 1978 in The Far Ends of Time and Earth along with The End of Eternity and the short story collection Earth Is Room Enough, and again with the Empire series novels in 2002 as The Empire Novels.

The book was adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy for Dimension X as " Pebble in the Sky "; first broadcast in 1951 it was released as an audio download in 2007 by Radio Spirits, and again in 2011.

Pebble in the Sky has been grouped along with The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space as the so-called Galactic Empire series.

In 1951, the SCCA National Sports Car Championship was formed from existing marquee events around the nation, including Watkins Glen, Pebble Beach, and Elkhart Lake.

Edmondson admitted on a 1995 appearance on Pebble Mill at One that the original name for the show was " My Bottom ," with the intention of frustrating any continuity announcers introducing the show.

Pebble mosaic depicting Bellerophon killing the Chimera, from Rhodes archaeological museum Robert Graves suggests, " The Chimera was, apparently, a calendar-symbol of the tripartite year, of which the seasonal emblems were lion, goat, and serpent.

Bluth and his partner Gary Goldman pulled out of 1995's The Pebble and the Penguin before it was completed due to disagreements with its distributor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Until mid-2004, Doctors was filmed at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

The Pebble Mill foyer was used as a street frontage and sets such as the police station and The Lether Bar used other areas of the studio complex alongside the Riverside surgery.

His first broadcast job was to read a " Morning Story " for BBC Pebble Mill Talks producer David Shute.

The name is derived from popel ( pebble ) and tun ( hamlet, farm ), and means " Pebble Farm ", due to the gravel bed upon which the village was built.

The name is derived from popel ( pebble ) and tun ( hamlet, farm ) and means " Pebble Farm " because of the gravel bed upon which the village was built.

The car was shown at Pebble Beach Concours d ' Elegance in 2003.

The show utilised space originally occupied by Pebble Mill at One ( 1973 – 1986 ) / Pebble Mill ( 1991 – 1996 ).

The miniature golf course was originally known as Pebble Beach Mini Golf, and was designed to be a mini golf version of Pebble Beach Golf Links.

One fixture of the schedule Pebble Mill at One became a popular British afternoon chat BBC1 show, though it started originally on BBC2.

The Pebble Mill studios were originally intended to have a third ' drama ' studio-Studio C-next to Studio A but this was never built.

One fixture of the schedule, Pebble Mill at One became a popular British afternoon chat BBC1 show, though it started originally on BBC2.

The story is set long before Pebble in the Sky, though it was written one year later.

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is a children's picture book written and illustrated by William Steig.