Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the thirteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These essays were first published between May 1976 and September 1977. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1978. Its title is derived from the first line of William Blake's 1794 poem "The Tyger".
Contents
- "It's a Wonderful Town!"
- "Surprise! Surprise!"
- "Making It!"
- "Moving Ahead"
- "To the Top"
- "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright"
- "The Comet That Wasn't"
- "The Sea-Green Planet"
- "Discovery by Blink"
- "Asimov's Corollary"
- "The Magic Isle"
- "The Dark Companion"
- "Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves"
- "The Final Collapse"
- "Of Ice and Men"
- "Oblique the Centric Globe"
- "The Opposite Poles"