Science fact articles

[chrispenycate]

Throughout the sixties, the "good doctor" wrote a series of science fact articles for "Analog" magazine. These covered a wide range of different sciences, mathematics, new dicoveries; I remember particularly "not as we know it" (about possible alternative biochemistries) and the first explanation I saw of a laser.
Does anyone know if these were ever collected, considering how much of his material was sold?

 

[mosaix]

Chris, I remember these well. I don't know if they were ever collected but this thread has prompted me to dig out my old copies from the loft as soon as my leg permits me to climb a ladder.

I have some very fond memories of Analog in those days - the 'Golden Age' as far as I'm concerned.

 

[j d worthington]

Chris, I'm not at all sure about those. Was there an umbrella title for the series of articles? That might make it easier to track down. I know that huge amounts of his F&SF articles were collected together, and I would imagine that his others were, as well... but I'm just not sure. I'll see if I can find out, though....

 

[Patrick Mahon]

I'm pretty sure this isn't the answer to Chris's question, but I got hold of a book called "Asimov on Science Fiction" today, which seems on an initial glance to be a collection of articles that Asimov wrote on various subjects allied to science fiction. The copy I've got is from 1984, published by Granada Books in the UK. Has anyone seen this before? Any views on it?

By the way, on the inside front cover of this book, there's a (partial) list of Asimov books, including two titles noted as being non-fiction: "The left hand of the electron", and "The stars in their courses". Are either of these the collections you were thinking of?

 

[Pyan]

And I have a copy of X stands for Unknown, published by Grafton Books, in 1984, which has 17 essays under headings such as Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Mathematics, and two very interesting ones under the title of The Fringe, which are quite vitriolic attacks on Creationism. These were all originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in 1982 and 1983.

In the front cover, there is a list of other non-fiction by the Good Doctor, including the ones mentioned by Patrick, and also The Sun Shines Bright and Counting the Eons, both available from Amazon (as is X Stands For Unknown).
According to Wikipedia, Asimov wrote no less than 399 of these articles, never missing an issue.

 

[j d worthington]

Well, Chris was specifically looking for the Analog essays, I think. I've not been able to track down collections devoted just to them, but this might help, as it separates (at least some of) the collections that came from F&SF from the others:

Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you look up some of the other titles under the sciences section, you may find information about whether or not they were from Analog.