The Secret of the Universe

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The Secret of the Universe: Revelations in Science
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First edition
Author Isaac Asimov
CountryUnited States
Series Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
Genre Science
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
1991
Media typeprint (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages240
ISBN 0-385-41693-8
Preceded by Out of the Everywhere  

The Secret of the Universe (1991) is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It is the twenty-second and final of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF). Asimov died in 1992.

Contents

The 22 books collect 373 of Asimov's 399 essays for the magazine. [1]

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