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The collection includes the essay "By Jove!", the source of the Asimov misquote describing the
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Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Isaac Asimov
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Doubleday
Hardback
Paperback
Fact and Fancy
Adding a Dimension
essays
Isaac Asimov
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Doubleday & Company
Science Magazine
The American Biology Teacher
Solar System
"View From a Height. Isaac Asimov. Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y., 1963. xii + 252 pp. $ 4.50"
Science Magazine
doi
10.1126/science.142.3589.220-a
ISSN
0036-8075
"Review"
The American Biology Teacher
doi
10.2307/4440969
ISSN
0002-7685
JSTOR
4440969
Lancer Books

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