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title: "Fact and Fancy"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact_and_Fancy"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:02.168304+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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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.
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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."
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The only essay that did not appear in Fantasy and Science Fiction was "Our Lonely Planet", which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction.
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== Contents ==
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Part I: The Earth and Away
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"Life's Bottleneck" (April 1959)
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"No More Ice Ages?" (January 1959)
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"Thin Air" (December 1959)
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"Catching Up with Newton" (December 1958)
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"Of Capture and Escape" (May 1959)
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Part II: The Solar System
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"Catskills in the Sky" (August 1960)
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"Beyond Pluto" (July 1960)
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"Steppingstones to the Stars" (October 1960)
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"The Planet of the Double Sun" (June 1959)
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Part III: The Universe
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"Heaven on Earth" (May 1961)
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"Our Lonely Planet" (November 1958)
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"The Flickering Yardstick" (March 1960)
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"The Sight of Home" (February 1960)
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"Here It Comes; There It Goes" (January 1961)
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Part IV: The Human Mind
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"Those Crazy Ideas" (January 1960)
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"My Built-in Doubter" (April 1961)
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"Battle of the Eggheads" (July 1959)
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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Asimovonline.com
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Fact and Fancy at The Thunder Child |