''The Tragedy of the Moon'' is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays by American writer and scientist
Isaac Asimov
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. It was the tenth of a series of books collecting essays from ''
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher a ...
'', these being first published between March 1972 and July 1973. It was first published by
Doubleday & Company
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed th ...
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
Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
1973 books
Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Doubleday (publisher) books
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