Fact and Fancy
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| Fact and Fancy | |
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
|---|---|
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
| Series | Fantasy & Science Fiction essays |
| Genre(s) | science essay |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | March 1962 |
| Media type | print (Hardback and Paperback) |
| Followed by | View from a Height |
Fact and Fancy is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by Isaac Asimov. It was the first of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Doubleday & Company first published it in March 1962.
The only essay that did not appear in Fantasy and Science Fiction was "Our Lonely Planet", which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction.
[edit] Contents
- Part I: The Earth and Away
- Life's Bottleneck (April 1959)
- No More Ice Ages? (January 1959)
- Thin Air (December 1959)
- Catching Up with Newton (December 1958)
- Of Capture and Escape (May 1959)
- Part II: The Solar System
- Catskills in the Sky (August 1960)
- Beyond Pluto (July 1960)
- Steppingstones to the Stars (October 1960)
- The Planet of the Double Sun (June 1959)
- Part III: The Universe
- Heaven on Earth (May 1961)
- Our Lonely Planet (November 1958)
- The Flickering Yardstick (March 1960)
- The Sight of Home (February 1960)
- Here It Comes; There It Goes (January 1961)
- Part IV: The Human Mind
- Those Crazy Ideas (January 1960)
- My Built-in Doubter (April 1961)
- Battle of the Eggheads (July 1959)
[edit] References
Fact and Fancy at The Thunder Child.
