Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
1978 collection of essays by Isaac Asimov
0-385-13464-9Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the thirteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These essays were first published between May 1976 and September 1977. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1978. Its title is derived from the first line of William Blake's 1794 poem "The Tyger".
Contents
- "It's a Wonderful Town!" (May 1976)
- "Surprise! Surprise!" (June 1976)
- "Making It!" (July 1976)
- "Moving Ahead" (August 1976)
- "To the Top" (September 1976)
- "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright" (October 1976)
- "The Comet That Wasn't" (November 1976)
- "The Sea-Green Planet" (December 1976)
- "Discovery by Blink" (January 1977)
- "Asimov's Corollary" (February 1977)
- "The Magic Isle" (March 1977)
- "The Dark Companion" (April 1977)
- "Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves" (May 1977)
- "The Final Collapse" (June 1977)
- "Of Ice and Men" (July 1977)
- "Oblique the Centric Globe" (August 1977)
- "The Opposite Poles" (September 1977)
External links
- Asimovonline.com
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Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
- 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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