Publication: Asimov on Astronomy

Publication: Asimov on AstronomyPublication Record # 679832
Author: Isaac Asimov
Date: 1975-00-00
ISBN: 0-385-06881-6 [978-0-385-06881-9]
Publisher: Anchor Press / Doubleday
Price:
$3.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: xiii+271
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: NONFICTION
Notes:
- Date from Library of Congress.
- Contents information from Bonanza Books 4th printing. Bonanza Books reprinted the Doubleday version per Bonanza Books copyright page.
- Cover artist credit per rear cover. Picture of Saturn (cover photograph) credited as copyright by the California Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- Collects essays originally published in F&SF. Per the introduction, the bodies of the essays have not been modified from the F&SF versions, but footnotes were added.
- Also includes 40 astronomical photographs to which Asimov has written (per the introduction) captions (consisting of multiple paragraphs) adding information relevant to the essay. These have not been listed.

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Nonfiction Title: Asimov on Astronomy • (1974) • nonfiction by Isaac Asimov

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xi • Introduction (Asimov on Astronomy) • [Asimov's Essays: Own Work] • (1974) • essay by Isaac Asimov
1 • Time and Tide • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1966) • essay by Isaac Asimov
15 • The Rocks of Damocles • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1966) • essay by Isaac Asimov
33 • Harmony in Heaven • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1965) • essay by Isaac Asimov
50 • The Trojan Hearse • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1961) • essay by Isaac Asimov
70 • By Jove! • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1962) • essay by Isaac Asimov
84 • Superficially Speaking • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1962) • essay by Isaac Asimov
100 • Round and Round and ... • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov
113 • Beyond Pluto • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
129 • Just Mooning Around • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1963) • essay by Isaac Asimov
143 • Steppingstones to the Stars • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Stepping-Stones to the Stars)
159 • The Planet of the Double Sun • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1959) • essay by Isaac Asimov
173 • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1963) • essay by Isaac Asimov
187 • Heaven on Earth • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1961) • essay by Isaac Asimov
200 • The Flickering Yardstick • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
218 • The Sight of Home • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
234 • The Black of Night • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov
249 • A Galaxy at a Time • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov

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