The Tragedy of the Moon
{{short description|Book by Isaac Asimov}}
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| author = Isaac Asimov
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| cover_artist = Roger Zimmerman
| country = United States
| language = English
| series = Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
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| genre = Science
| publisher = Doubleday
| pub_date = 1973
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| media_type = print (Hardback and Paperback)
| pages = 220
| isbn = 0-385-07221-X
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| preceded_by = The Left Hand of the Electron
| followed_by = Of Matters Great and Small
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The Tragedy of the Moon is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the tenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, these being first published between March 1972 and July 1973. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1973.{{Cite news |last=Proctor |first=Valerie |date=1973-12-09 |title=Asimov's latest is best yet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-news-asimovs-latest-is-b/166479889/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |work=The Birmingham News |pages=151}}
Contents
- A — About the Moon
- 1 — The Tragedy of the Moon
- 2 — The Triumph of the Moon
- 3 — Moon Over Babylon
- 4 — The Week Excuse
- B — About Other Small Worlds
- 5 — The World Ceres
- 6 — The Clock in the Sky
- C — About Carbon
- 7 — The One and Only
- 8 — The Unlikely Twins
- D — About Micro-organisms
- 9 — Through The Microglass
- 10 — Down From The Amoeba
- 11 — The Cinderella Compound
- E — About the Thyroid Gland
- 12 — Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat
- F — About Society
- 13 — Lost in Non-Translation
- 14 — The Ancient and the Ultimate
- 15 — By The Numbers
- G — And (You Guessed It!) About Me
- 16 — The Cruise And I (July 1973)
- 17 — Academe And I
References
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External links
- [http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/Essays/f_and_sf_essays.html Asimovonline.com]
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Category:Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
Category:Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Category:Doubleday (publisher) books
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