The Solar System and Back

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The Solar System and Back (1970) is a collection of science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It is the seventh in a series of books reprinting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Contents

• "Nothing" (March 1959)
• "The First Metal" (December 1967)
• "The Seventh Metal" (January 1968)
• "The Predicted Metal" (February 1968)
• "The Seventh Planet" (March 1968)
• "The Dance of the Sun" (April 1968)
• "Backward, Turn Backward—" (May 1968)
• "Counting Chromosomes" (June 1968)
• "Little Lost Satellite" (July 1968)
• "The Terrible Lizards" (August 1968)
• "The Dying Lizards" (September 1968)
• "Little Found Satellite" (October 1968)
• "The Planetary Eccentric" (November 1968)
• "View from Amalthea" (December 1968)
• "The Dance of the Satellites" (January 1969)
• "Uncertain, Coy, and Hard to Please" (February 1969)
• "Just Right" (March 1969)
• "The Incredible Shrinking People" (April 1969)

External links

• Asimovonline.com