num_pages: 208
description: 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).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)
language: English
title: Fact and Fancy
titlecomplete: Fact and Fancy
genres: Science, Essays, Science Fiction Fantasy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 81
publisher: Avon Books (Discus)