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=== Nonfiction === ==== Popular science ==== =====Collections of Asimov's essays for ''F&SF''===== The following books collected essays which were originally published as monthly columns in ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'' and collected by [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday & Co]] # ''[[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) # ''Asimov On Astronomy'' (updated version of essays in previous collections) (1974) {{ISBN|978-0-517-27924-3}} # ''Asimov On Chemistry'' (updated version of essays in previous collections) (1974) # ''[[Of Matters Great and Small]]'' (1975) # ''Asimov On Physics'' (updated version of essays in previous collections) (1976) {{ISBN|978-0-385-00958-4}} # ''[[The Planet That Wasn't]]'' (1976) # ''Asimov On Numbers'' (updated version of essays in previous collections) (1976) # ''[[Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright]]'' (1977) # ''[[The Road to Infinity]]'' (1979) # ''[[The Sun Shines Bright (book)|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) # ''Asimov on Science: A 30 Year Retrospective 1959β1989'' (1989) (features the first essay in the introduction) # ''[[Out of the Everywhere]]'' (1990) # ''[[The Secret of the Universe]]'' (1991) =====Other general science essay collections===== * ''[[Only a Trillion]]'' (1957), Abelard-Schuman, {{ISBN|978-0-441-63121-6}}; (1976) revised and updated ed. * ''[[Is Anyone There?]]'' (1967), Doubleday, {{ISBN|0-385-08401-3}} (which includes the article in which he coined the term "[[spome]]") * ''[[Today and Tomorrow andβ]]'' (1973), Doubleday * ''Science Past, Science Future'' (1975), Doubleday, {{ISBN|978-0-385-09923-3}} * ''[[Please Explain]]'' (1975), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|978-0-440-96804-7}} * ''Life and Time'' (1978), Doubleday * ''The Roving Mind'' (1983), [[Prometheus Books]], new edition 1997, {{ISBN|1-57392-181-5}} * ''The Dangers of Intelligence'' (1986), Houghton Mifflin * ''Past, Present and Future'' (1987), Prometheus Books, {{ISBN|978-0-87975-393-1}} * ''The Tyrannosaurus Prescription'' (1989), Prometheus Books * ''Frontiers'' (1990), Dutton * ''Frontiers II'' (1993), Dutton =====Other science books by Asimov===== * ''[[The Chemicals of Life (book)|The Chemicals of Life]]'' (1954), [[Abelard-Schuman]] {{ISBN|978-0-451-62418-5}} * ''[[Inside the Atom]]'' (1956), Abelard-Schuman, {{ISBN|978-0-200-71444-0}} * ''[[Building Blocks of the Universe]]'' (1957; revised 1974), Abelard-Schuman, {{ISBN|978-0-200-71099-2}} * ''[[The World of Carbon (book)|The World of Carbon]]'' (1958), Abelard-Schuman, {{ISBN|978-0-02-091350-4}} * ''[[The World of Nitrogen (book)|The World of Nitrogen]]'' (1958), Abelard-Schuman, {{ISBN|978-0-02-091400-6}} * ''[[Words of Science and the History Behind Them]]'' (1959), [[Houghton Mifflin]] {{ISBN|978-0-395-06571-6}} * ''[[The Clock We Live On (book)|The Clock We Live On]]'' (1959), Abelard-Schuman, {{ISBN|978-0-200-71100-5}} * ''[[Breakthroughs in Science]]'' (1959), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|978-0-395-06561-7}} * ''[[Realm of Numbers]]'' (1959), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|978-0-395-06566-2}} * ''[[Realm of Measure]]'' (1960), Houghton Mifflin * ''[[The Wellsprings of Life]]'' (1960), Abelard-Schuman, {{ISBN|978-0-451-03245-4}} * ''[[Life and Energy]]'' (1962), Doubleday, {{ISBN|978-0-380-00942-8}} * ''[[The Genetic Code]]'' (1962), The Orion Press * ''[[The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation]]'' (1963), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|978-0-451-02430-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-451-62707-0}} (revised) * ''[[The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions (book)|The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions]]'' (1963), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|978-0-451-62867-1}} * ''Planets for Man'' (with [[Stephen H. Dole]]) (1964), [[Random House]], reprinted by [[RAND]] in 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-8330-4226-2}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB183-1/ |title=Planets for Man |publisher=RAND |date=September 15, 2010 |access-date=June 23, 2012 |archive-date=July 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714130318/http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB183-1/ |url-status=live |last1=Dole |first1=Stephen H. |last2=Asimov |first2=Isaac }}</ref> * ''[[An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule]]'' (1965), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|978-0-395-06575-4}} * ''[[The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science]]'' (1965), [[Basic Books]] ** The title varied with each of the four editions, the last being ''Asimov's New Guide to Science'' (1984) {{ISBN|978-0-14-017213-3}} * ''[[The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar (book)|The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar]]'' (1966), Walker, {{ISBN|978-0-380-01596-2}} * ''[[The Neutrino (book)|The Neutrino]]'' (1966), Doubleday, [[ASIN]] B002JK525W * ''[[Understanding Physics Vol. I, Motion, Sound, and Heat]]'' (1966), Walker, {{ISBN|978-0-451-00329-4}} * ''[[Understanding Physics Vol. II, Light, Magnetism, and Electricity]]'' (1966), Walker, {{ISBN|978-0-451-61942-6}} * ''[[Understanding Physics Vol. III, The Electron, Proton, and Neutron]]'' (1966), Walker, {{ISBN|978-0-451-62634-9}} * ''[[Photosynthesis (book)|Photosynthesis]]'' (1969), Basic Books, {{ISBN|978-0-465-05703-0}} * ''[[Our World in Space (book)|Our World in Space]]'' (1974), New York Graphic, {{ISBN|978-0-8212-0434-4}} * ''[[Eyes on the Universe: A History of the Telescope]]'' (1976), Andre Deutsch Limited, {{ISBN|0-233-96760-5}} * ''[[The Collapsing Universe (book)|The Collapsing Universe]]'' (1977), Walker, {{ISBN|0-671-81738-8}} * ''[[Extraterrestrial Civilizations]]'' (1979), Crown, {{ISBN|978-0-449-90020-8}} * ''A Choice of Catastrophes'' (1979), Simon & Schuster, {{ISBN|978-0-671-22701-2}} * ''[[Visions of the Universe]]'' with illustrations by [[Kazuaki Iwasaki]] (1981), Cosmos Store, {{ISBN|978-0-939540-01-3}} * ''[[Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos]]'' (1982), Crown, {{ISBN|978-0-517-54667-3}} * ''[[The Measure of the Universe]]'' (1983), Harper & Row * ''[[Think About Space: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?]]'' with co-author Frank White (1989), Walker * ''[[Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery]]'' (1989), Harper & Row, second edition adds content thru 1993, {{ISBN|978-0-06-270113-8}} * ''Beginnings: The Story of Origins'' (1989), Walker * ''[[Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space]]'' (1991), Random House, {{ISBN|978-0-449-22059-7}} * ''[[Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos]]'' (1991), Dutton, {{ISBN|978-1-4395-0900-5}} * ''[[Mysteries of Deep Space: Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes]]'' (1994) {{ISBN|978-0-8368-1133-9}} * ''[[Earth's Moon (Asimov)|Earth's Moon]]'' (1988), [[Gareth Stevens]], revised in 2003 by [[Richard Hantula]] {{ISBN|978-1-59102-122-3}} * ''[[The Sun (Asimov)|The Sun]]'' (1988), Gareth Stevens, revised in 2003 by [[Richard Hantula]] {{ISBN|978-1-59102-122-3}} * ''[[The Earth (Asimov)|The Earth]]'' (1988), Gareth Stevens, revised in 2004 by Richard Hantula {{ISBN|978-1-59102-177-3}} * ''[[Jupiter (Asimov)|Jupiter]]'' (1989), Gareth Stevens, revised in 2004 by Richard Hantula {{ISBN|978-1-59102-123-0}} * ''[[Venus (Asimov)|Venus]]'' (1990), Gareth Stevens, revised in 2004 by Richard Hantula {{ISBN|978-0-8368-3877-0}} ==== Literary works ==== All published by Doubleday * ''[[Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare]]'', vols I and II (1970), {{ISBN|0-517-26825-6}} * ''Asimov's Annotated "[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]"'' (1972) * ''Asimov's Annotated "[[Paradise Lost]]"'' (1974) * ''Familiar Poems, Annotated'' (1976) * ''Asimov's The Annotated "[[Gulliver's Travels]]"'' (1980) * ''Asimov's Annotated "[[Gilbert and Sullivan]]"'' (1988) ==== The Bible ==== * ''Words from Genesis'' (1962), [[Houghton Mifflin]] * ''Words from the Exodus'' (1963), Houghton Mifflin * ''[[Asimov's Guide to the Bible]]'', vols I and II (1967 and 1969, one-volume ed. 1981), Doubleday, {{ISBN|0-517-34582-X}} * ''The Story of Ruth'' (1972), Doubleday, {{ISBN|0-385-08594-X}} * ''In the Beginning'' (1981), Crown ==== Autobiography ==== {{main|Autobiographies of Isaac Asimov}} * ''In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920β1954'' (1979, [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]) * ''In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954β1978'' (1980, Doubleday) * ''I. Asimov: A Memoir'' (1994, Doubleday) * ''[[It's Been a Good Life]]'' (2002, [[Prometheus Books]]), condensation of Asimov's three volumes of autobiography, edited by his widow, [[Janet Asimov|Janet Jeppson Asimov]] ==== History ==== All published by [[Houghton Mifflin]] except where otherwise stated * ''The Kite That Won the Revolution'' (1963), {{ISBN|0-395-06560-7}} * ''The Greeks: A Great Adventure'' (1965) * ''The Roman Republic'' (1966) * ''The Roman Empire'' (1967) * ''The Egyptians'' (1967) * ''The Near East'' (1968) * ''The Dark Ages'' (1968) * ''Words from History'' (1968) * ''The Shaping of England'' (1969) * ''Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire'' (1970) * ''The Land of Canaan'' (1971) * ''The Shaping of France'' (1972) * ''The Shaping of North America: From Earliest Times to 1763'' (1973) * ''The Birth of the United States: 1763β1816'' (1974) * ''Our Federal Union: The United States from 1816 to 1865'' (1975), {{ISBN|0-395-20283-3}} * ''The Golden Door: The United States from 1865 to 1918'' (1977) * ''[[Asimov's Chronology of the World]]'' (1991), [[HarperCollins]], {{ISBN|0-06-270036-7}} * ''[[The March of the Millennia]]'' (1991), with co-author Frank White, Walker & Company, {{ISBN|0-8027-7391-5}} ==== Humor ==== * ''The Sensuous Dirty Old Man'' (1971) (As Dr. A), Walker & Company, {{ISBN|0-451-07199-9}} * ''[[Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor]]'' (1971), [[Houghton Mifflin]], {{ISBN|0-395-57226-6}} * ''[[Lecherous Limericks]]'' (1975), Walker, {{ISBN|0-449-22841-X}} * ''More Lecherous Limericks'' (1976), Walker, {{ISBN|0-8027-7102-5}} * ''Still More Lecherous Limericks'' (1977), Walker, {{ISBN|0-8027-7106-8}} * ''Limericks, Two Gross'', with John Ciardi (1978), Norton, {{ISBN|0-393-04530-7}} * ''A Grossery of Limericks'', with [[John Ciardi]] (1981), Norton, {{ISBN|0-393-33112-1}} * ''Limericks for Children'' (1984), Caedmon * ''Asimov Laughs Again'' (1992), [[HarperCollins]] ==== On writing science fiction ==== * ''Asimov on Science Fiction'' (1981), Doubleday * ''Asimov's Galaxy'' (1989), Doubleday ==== Other nonfiction ==== * ''[[Opus 100]]'' (1969), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|0-395-07351-0}} * ''[[Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology]]'' (1964), Doubleday (revised edition 1972, {{ISBN|0-385-17771-2}}) * ''[[Opus 200]]'' (1979), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|0-395-27625-X}} * ''Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts'' (1979), Grosset & Dunlap, {{ISBN|0-517-36111-6}} * ''[[Opus 300]]'' (1984), Houghton Mifflin, {{ISBN|0-395-36108-7}} * ''[[Our Angry Earth]]: A Ticking Ecological Bomb'' (1991), with co-author [[Frederik Pohl]], Tor, {{ISBN|0-312-85252-5}}.
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