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The Solar System and Back

The Solar System and Back (1970) is a collection of science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It is the seventh in a series of books reprinting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Key Information

First edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Language	English
Series	Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
Subject	Science Essays
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	January 19, 1970
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages	246
ISBN	0-385-02345-6
Preceded by	Science, Numbers, and I
Followed by	The Stars in their Courses

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)

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Asimovonline.com

Essay collections by Isaac Asimov

Collections

Only a Trillion (1957)
Fact and Fancy (1962)
View from a Height (1963)
Adding a Dimension (1964)
Of Time and Space and Other Things (1965)
From Earth to Heaven (1966)
Science, Numbers, and I (1968)
The Solar System and Back (1970)
The Stars in Their Courses (1971)
The Left Hand of the Electron (1972)
The Tragedy of the Moon (1973)
Of Matters Great and Small (1975)
The Planet That Wasn't (1976)
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (1978)
The Road to Infinity (1979)
Asimov on Science Fiction (1981)
The Sun Shines Bright (1981)
Counting the Eons (1983)
'X' Stands for Unknown (1984)
The Subatomic Monster (1985)
Far as Human Eye Could See (1987)
The Relativity of Wrong (1988)
Out of the Everywhere (1990)
Robot Visions (1990)
The Secret of the Universe (1991)

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