Fact and Fancy

Fact and Fancy is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the first in a series of books collecting his essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's second book of science essays altogether (after Only a Trillion). Doubleday & Company first published it in March 1962. It was also published in paperback by Pyramid Books as part of The Worlds of Science series.

Fact and Fancy

File:FactAndFancy.jpg First edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Language	English
Series	Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	March 1962
Publication place	United States
Media type	print (Hardback and Paperback)
Followed by	View from a Height

After he had written 200 essays for Fantasy and Science Fiction (out of 399 in the end), Asimov wrote of them "To this day I get more pleasure out of them than out of any other writing assignment I get."

The only essay that did not appear in Fantasy and Science Fiction was "Our Lonely Planet", which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction.

Contents

• Part I: The Earth and Away
  • "Life's Bottleneck" (April 1959)
  • "No More Ice Ages?" (January 1959)
  • "Thin Air" (December 1959)
  • "Catching Up with Newton" (December 1958)
  • "Of Capture and Escape" (May 1959)
• Part II: The Solar System
  • "Catskills in the Sky" (August 1960)
  • "Beyond Pluto" (July 1960)
  • "Steppingstones to the Stars" (October 1960)
  • "The Planet of the Double Sun" (June 1959)
• Part III: The Universe
  • "Heaven on Earth" (May 1961)
  • "Our Lonely Planet" (November 1958)
  • "The Flickering Yardstick" (March 1960)
  • "The Sight of Home" (February 1960)
  • "Here It Comes; There It Goes" (January 1961)
• Part IV: The Human Mind
  • "Those Crazy Ideas" (January 1960)
  • "My Built-in Doubter" (April 1961)
  • "Battle of the Eggheads" (July 1959)

External links

• Asimovonline.com
• Fact and Fancy at The Thunder Child