Counting the Eons


Counting the Eons is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays written by Isaac Asimov. It was the sixteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, these being first published between August 1980 and December 1981. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1983.

Contents

  1. The Earth
    1. Light as Air?
    2. Too Deep for Me
    3. Under Pressure
    4. The Word I Invented
    5. Yes! With a Bang!
    6. Let Me Count the Days
    7. Counting the Eons
  2. The Stars
    2. The Runaway Star
    3. The Dance of the Stars
  3. The Universe
    2. Getting Down to Basics
    3. And After Many a Summer Dies the Proton
    4. Let Einstein Be!
    5. Beyond Earth's Eons
    6. The Crucial Asymmetry
    7. All and Nothing
    8. Nothing and All
  4. Literature
    2. Milton! Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour