Fact and Fancy

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Fact and Fancy

Isaac Asimov
1962

Synopsis

Collection of seventeen scientific essays Part I: The Earth and Away "Life's Bottleneck" "No More Ice Ages?" "Thin Air" "Catching Up with Newton" "Of Capture and Escape" Part II: The Solar System "Catskills in the Sky" "Beyond Pluto" "Steppingstones to the Stars" "The Planet of the Double Sun" Part III: The Universe "Heaven on Earth" "Our Lonely Planet" "The Flickering Yardstick" "The Sight of Home" "Here It Comes; There It Goes" Part IV: The Human Mind "Those Crazy Ideas" "My Built-in Doubter" "Battle of the Eggheads"