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Fact and Fancy

Fact and Fancy is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the first in a series of books collecting his essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's second book of science essays altogether . Doubleday & Company first published it in March 1962. It was also published in paperback by Pyramid Books as part of The Worlds of Science series.


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“The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.”

Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
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“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”

Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
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