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Cover artist
  
Roger Zimmerman

Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1973

Page count
  
220

Genres
  
Essay, Science

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1973

Author
  
Isaac Asimov

Publisher
  
Doubleday

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Series
  
Fantasy & Science Fiction essays

Media type
  
print (Hardback and Paperback)

Preceded by
  
The Left Hand of the Electron

Similar
  
Isaac Asimov books, Science books

The Tragedy of the Moon is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays written by Isaac Asimov. It was the tenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, these being first published between March 1972 and July 1973. It was first published by Doubleday & Company 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

    • References

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