''From Earth to Heaven'' is a collection of seventeen scientific
essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...
s by American writer and scientist
Isaac Asimov
yi, יצחק אזימאװ
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. It was the fifth of a series of books collecting essays from ''
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher ...
''. It was first published by
Doubleday & Company
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in 1966.
Contents
*"Harmony in Heaven" (''F&SF'', February 1965)
*"Oh, East is West and West is East—" (March 1965)
*"The Certainty of Uncertainty" (April 1965)
*"To Tell a Chemist" (May 1965)
*"Future? Tense!" (June 1965)
*"Exclamation Point!" (July 1965)
*"Behind the Teacher's Back" (August 1965)
*"Death in the Laboratory" (September 1965)
*"The Land of Mu" (October 1965)
*"Squ-u-u-ush!" (November 1965)
*"Water, Water, Everywhere—" (December 1965)
*"The Proton-Reckoner" (January 1966)
*"Up and Down the Earth" (February 1966)
*"The Rocks of Damocles" (March 1966)
*"The Nobelmen of Science" (April 1966)
*"Time and Tide" (May 1966)
*"The Isles of Earth" (June 1966)
External links
Asimovonline.com
Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
1966 books
Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Doubleday (publisher) books
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