''The Road to Infinity'' 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 fourteenth of a series of books collecting Asimov's science 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 ...
''. It also included a list of all of Asimov's essays in that magazine up to 1979. 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 1979.
Contents
*"The Subtlest Difference" (''F&SF'', October 1977)
*"The Sons of Mars Revisited" (November 1977)
*"Dark and Bright" (December 1977)
*"The Real Finds Waiting" (January 1978)
*"The Lost Art" (February 1978)
*"Anyone For Tens?" (March 1978)
*"The Floating Crystal Palace" (April 1978)
*"By Land and By Sea" (May 1978)
*"We Were the First that Ever Burst" (June 1978)
*"Second to the Skua" (July 1978)
*"Rings and Things" (August 1978)
*"Countdown" (September 1978)
*"Toward Zero" (October 1978)
*"Fifty Million Big Brothers" (November 1978)
*"Where is Everybody?" (December 1978)
*"Proxima" (January 1979)
*"The Road to Infinity" (February 1979)
External links
Asimovonline.com
at Asimovreviews.com
''The Road to Infinity''
at Goodreads.com
Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
1978 books
Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Doubleday (publisher) books
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