The Tragedy of the Moon

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Collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays from *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction*

A — About the Moon

The Tragedy of the Moon

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The Triumph of the Moon

Moon Over Babylon

The Week Excuse

B — About Other Small Worlds

The World Ceres

The Clock in the Sky

C — About Carbon

The One and Only

The Unlikely Twins

D — About Micro-organisms

Through The Microglass

Down From The Amoeba

The Cinderella Compound

E — About the Thyroid Gland

Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat

F — About Society

Lost in Non-Translation

The Ancient and the Ultimate

By The Numbers

G — And (You Guessed It!) About Me

The Cruise And I (July 1973)

Academe And I

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