title: Counting the Eons
text: # 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)
  