The Tragedy of the Moon
Book by Isaac Asimov
The Tragedy of the Moon is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the tenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, these being first published between March 1972 and July 1973. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1973.
Contents
- A — About the Moon
- 1 — The Tragedy of the Moon
- 2 — The Triumph of the Moon
- 3 — Moon Over Babylon
- 4 — The Week Excuse
- B — About Other Small Worlds
- 5 — The World Ceres
- 6 — The Clock in the Sky
- C — About Carbon
- 7 — The One and Only
- 8 — The Unlikely Twins
- D — About Micro-organisms
- 9 — Through The Microglass
- 10 — Down From The Amoeba
- 11 — The Cinderella Compound
- E — About the Thyroid Gland
- 12 — Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat
- F — About Society
- 13 — Lost in Non-Translation
- 14 — The Ancient and the Ultimate
- 15 — By The Numbers
- G — And (You Guessed It!) About Me
- 16 — The Cruise And I (July 1973)
- 17 — Academe And I
External links
- Asimovonline.com
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Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
- Only a Trillion (1957)
- Fact and Fancy (1962)
- View from a Height (1963)
- Adding a Dimension (1964)
- Of Time and Space and Other Things (1965)
- From Earth to Heaven (1966)
- Science, Numbers, and I (1968)
- The Solar System and Back (1970)
- The Stars in Their Courses (1971)
- The Left Hand of the Electron (1972)
- The Tragedy of the Moon (1973)
- Of Matters Great and Small (1975)
- The Planet That Wasn't (1976)
- Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (1978)
- The Road to Infinity (1979)
- Asimov on Science Fiction (1981)
- The Sun Shines Bright (1981)
- Counting the Eons (1983)
- 'X' Stands for Unknown (1984)
- The Subatomic Monster (1985)
- Far as Human Eye Could See (1987)
- The Relativity of Wrong (1988)
- Out of the Everywhere (1990)
- Robot Visions (1990)
- The Secret of the Universe (1991)
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