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Isaac Asimov’s “The Tragedy of the Moon” compiles seventeen nonfiction essays originally published in *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction*. The essays span diverse subjects: astronomy and the Moon, small solar system bodies, carbon chemistry, microbiology, endocrine science, social issues, and autobiographical reflections.
First publish date: 1973
Genre: Science/Astronomy
Authors: Isaac Asimov
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