Dystopia in which a radioactive Earth is shunned by the other inhabited planets. There is a galactic empire that connects this book with his Foundation series. Earth is considered to be a backward, inferior planet inhabited by primitives and many Earthlings oppose the empire. Conflict ensues with a balance ultimately achieved.
}, year = {1950}, month = {01/1950}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, note = {Rpt. as\ Galaxy Science Fiction Novel $\#$ 14. New York: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1953; and New York: Bantam Books, 1957; and in his\ Triangle. The Currents of Space Pebble in the Sky The Stars, Like Dust\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1961]), 173-346. Originally written as \"Grow Old With Me\" but not published as intended. That version was published in his\ The Alternate Asimovs\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986). 5-133 with a \"Foreword\" (1-4) and an \"Afterword\" (134-36).
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