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  • Publication: Asimov on Science: A 30 Year RetrospectivePublication Record # 874584
  • Author: Isaac Asimov
  • Date: 1991-11-00
  • ISBN: 1-55817-560-1 [978-1-55817-560-0]
  • Publisher: Pinnacle Books
  • Price:
    $4.99?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 477
  • Format:
    pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Notes: A selection of 31 essays originally printed in F&SF (and almost entirely reprinted from earlier collections of those essays.) In the introduction, Asimov states, "After thirty years... I have chosen one essay from every successive twelve and put together this volume as a celebration of longevity." In the afterword to the last essay, he says he included it "on the principle of 'the baker's dozen'--add another one to be sure of giving full measure." However, he'd already added another one in that the introduction reprints the (otherwise un-reprinted) first 1,200-word essay in the series called "The Dust of Ages" (November 1958), so this actually contains 32 F&SF essays. Each essay is immediately followed by a half-page to one-page afterword. The extended copyright page erroneously repeats the first publication of the "The Egg and Wee" for "You, Too, Can Speak Gaelic."
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Nonfiction Title: Asimov on Science: A 30 Year Retrospective • (1989) • nonfiction by Isaac Asimov

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