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Country
  
United States

Pages
  
218

Originally published
  
1984

Page count
  
218

Followed by
  
The Subatomic Monster

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Language
  
English

ISBN
  
0-385-18915-X

Author
  
Isaac Asimov

Preceded by
  
Counting the Eons

Genres
  
Science, Essay

Series
  
Fantasy & Science Fiction essays

Media type
  
print (Hardback and Paperback)

Similar
  
Isaac Asimov books, F&SF Essay Collections books, Science books

'X' Stands for Unknown is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays written by Isaac Asimov. It was the seventeenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, these being first published between January 1982 and May 1983. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1984.

Contents

  • Physics
  • 1 Read Out Your Good Book in Verse (May 1982)
  • 2 Four Hundred Octaves (June 1982)
  • 3 The Three Who Died Too Soon (July 1982)
  • 4 X Stands for Unknown (August 1982)
  • Chemistry
  • 5 Big Brother (September 1982)
  • 6 Bread and Stone (October 1982)
  • 7 A Difference of an 'E' (November 1982)
  • 8 Silicon Life After All (December 1982)
  • Astronomy
  • 9 The Long Ellipse (January 1982)
  • 10 Change of Time and State (April 1982)
  • 11 Whatzisname's Orbit (March 1982)
  • 12 Ready and Waiting (February 1983)
  • 13 Dead Centre (April 1983)
  • 14 Out in the Boondocks (May 1983)
  • Mathematics
  • 15 To Ungild Refinèd Gold (January 1983)
  • 16 The Circle of the Earth (February 1982)
  • 17 The Armies of the Night (March 1983)

    • References

    X Stands for Unknown Wikipedia
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