title: Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
text: # Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
  
  Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the thirteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These essays were first published between May 1976 and September 1977. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1978. Its title is derived from the first line of William Blake's 1794 poem "The Tyger".
  
  ## Contents
  
  * "It's a Wonderful Town!" (May 1976)
  * "Surprise! Surprise!" (June 1976)
  * "Making It!" (July 1976)
  * "Moving Ahead" (August 1976)
  * "To the Top" (September 1976)
  * "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright" (October 1976)
  * "The Comet That Wasn't" (November 1976)
  * "The Sea-Green Planet" (December 1976)
  * "Discovery by Blink" (January 1977)
  * "Asimov's Corollary" (February 1977)
  * "The Magic Isle" (March 1977)
  * "The Dark Companion" (April 1977)
  * "Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves" (May 1977)
  * "The Final Collapse" (June 1977)
  * "Of Ice and Men" (July 1977)
  * "Oblique the Centric Globe" (August 1977)
  * "The Opposite Poles" (September 1977)
  