The Solar System and Back

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The Solar System and Back  
Author Isaac Asimov
Country  USA
Language English
Series Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
Genre(s) science essay
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 1970
Media type print (Hardback and Paperback)
Preceded by Science, Numbers and I
Followed by The Stars in Their Courses

The Solar System and Back (1970) is the seventh collection of Isaac Asimov's essays, reprinted from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF).

[edit] Contents

  • "Nothing" (March 1959)
  • "The First Metal" (December 1967)
  • "The Seventh Metal" (January 1968)
  • "The Predicted Metal" (February 1968)
  • "The Seventh Planet" (March 1968)
  • "The Dance of the Sun" (April 1968)
  • "Backward, Turn Backward—" (May 1968)
  • "Counting Chromosomes" (June 1968)
  • "Little Lost Satellite" (July 1968)
  • "The Terrible Lizards" (August 1968)
  • "The Dying Lizards" (September 1968)
  • "Little Found Satellite" (October 1968)
  • "The Planetary Eccentric" (November 1968)
  • "View from Amalthea" (December 1968)
  • "The Dance of the Satellites" (January 1969)
  • "Uncertain, Coy, and Hard to Please" (February 1969)
  • "Just Right" (March 1969)
  • "The Incredible Shrinking People" (April 1969)