''The Planet That Wasn't'' is a collection of seventeen scientific
essay
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s by American writer and scientist
Isaac Asimov
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. It was the twelfth 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 ...
''. These essays were first published between December 1974 and April 1976. 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 1976.
Contents
*"Star In The East" (''F&SF'', December 1974)
*"Thinking About Thinking" (January 1975)
*"The Rocketing Dutchmen" (February 1975)
*"The Bridge of the Gods" (March 1975)
*"The Judo Argument" (April 1975)
*"The Planet That Wasn't" (May 1975)
*"The Olympian Snows" (June 1975)
*"Titanic Surprise" (July 1975)
*"The Wicked Witch is Dead" (August 1975)
*"The Wrong Turning" (September 1975)
*"The Third Liquid" (October 1975)
*"Best Foot Backward" (November 1975)
*"The Smell of Electricity" (December 1975)
*"Silent Victory" (January 1976)
*"Change of Air" (February 1976)
*"The Nightfall Effect" (March 1976)
*"All Gall" (April 1976)
External links
Asimovonline.com''The Planet That Wasn't''
at Goodreads.com
Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
1976 books
Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Doubleday (publisher) books
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