Counting the Eons

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| publisher = Doubleday

| pub_date = 7 January 1983

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| preceded_by = The Sun Shines Bright

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Counting the Eons is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays written by Isaac Asimov. It was the sixteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, these being first published between August 1980 and December 1981. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1983.