Science & Wonder: The universe is stranger than fiction

Popular science written to astonish — the books that make the workings of nature feel like the best story ever told.

In this collection

• Rappaccini's Daughter
• When we Must not Believe our Eyes
• The Gods of Mars
• The Universe Wreckers
• The Milk in the Coco-Nut
• In the Days of the Comet
• Manners and Customs of the Thrid
• Liberalism
• Friend Island
• Marooned Off Vesta
• Backlash
• The Risk Profession
• The Child of the Phalanstery
• Jungle in the Sky
• Squirrels
• Between the Lupin and the Laurel
• The Toy
• The Last Harvest
• Matchmaker
• What a Colored Man Should Do to Vote
• Wreck Off Triton
• William Herschel, Bandsman
• The Brain Sinner
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
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