Only a Trillion
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Only a Trillion | |
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1st edition | |
Author | Isaac Asimov |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Abelard-Schuman |
Publication date | 1957 |
Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
Pages | 195 |
Only a Trillion is a collection of ten science essays and three scientific spoof articles by Isaac Asimov. It was the first collection of science essays published by Asimov. It was first published by Abelard-Schuman in 1957. A paperback edition published by Ace Books in 1976 included updates of outdated material (re-issued in 1980). The book was also published under the title Marvels of Science by Collier Books in 1962.
Contents
- The Atoms That Vanish (first published in Change!, 1957)
- The Explosions Within Us (original article)
- Hemoglobin and the Universe (first published in Astounding Science Fiction, Feb. 1955)
- Victory on Paper (first published in Astounding, Sept. 1955)
- The Abnormality of Being Normal (first published in Astounding, May 1956)
- Planets Have an Air About Them (first published in Astounding, March 1957)
- The Unblind Workings of Chance (first published in Astounding, April 1957)
- The Trapping of the Sun (first published in Astounding, May 1957)
- The Sea-Urchin and We (first published in Astounding, July 1957)
- The Sound of Panting (first published in Astounding, June 1955)
- The Marvellous Properties of Thiotimoline
- The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline (first published in Astounding, March 1948)
- The Micropsychiatric Applications of Thiotimoline (first published in Astounding, Dec. 1953)
- Pâté de Foie Gras (first published in Astounding, Sept. 1956)
External links
- A review of Only a Trillion by Robert E. K. Rourke.
- Only a Trillion (1957) at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Only a Trillion (1976) at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Marvels of Science at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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