Counting the Eons
# Counting the Eons

Counting the Eons is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays written by Isaac Asimov. It was the sixteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, these being first published between August 1980 and December 1981. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1983.

## Contents

* The Earth
   * Light as Air? (March 1981)
   * Too Deep for Me (April 1981)
   * Under Pressure (May 1981)
   * The Word I Invented (October 1980)
   * Yes! With a Bang! (June 1981)
   * Let Me Count the Days (October 1981)
   * Counting the Eons (November 1980)
* The Stars
   * The Runaway Star (July 1981)
   * The Dance of the Stars (August 1981)
* The Universe
   * Getting Down to Basics (September 1980)
   * And After Many a Summer Dies the Proton (September 1981)
   * Let Einstein Be! (December 1981)
   * Beyond Earth's Eons (December 1980)
   * The Crucial Asymmetry (November 1981)
   * All and Nothing (January 1981)
   * Nothing and All (February 1981)
* Literature
   * Milton! Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour (August 1980)
