And many more. Twenty stories: each riveting, each a classic.
David Birney, Sarah Douglas, Alexis Kanner, Andra Millian D: Paul Mayersberg C: Darius Wolski. A planet that has two suns (and therefore no night) experiences an eclipse and its inhabitants go mad. A day when walking outdoors becomes a sign of psychosis. Nightfall 1988 (PG-13)Adaptation of the classic Isaac Asimov short story. The discovery that Earthlings are being destroyed by a mysterious kind of psychological virus. The other stories in the collection span far and wide: Machines that learn to think for themselves-and direct their thoughts to overturning the establishment.
‘Nightfall’ is the most famous and well-written of these men-as-robots type tales, due to the hand of Campbell adding some poetical purple prose to the climax, in a fashion notably uncharacteristic of Asimov’s dry, dull wont. Compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction, it begins with “Nightfall,” the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into total darkness and utter madness. Published when the author was only twenty-one, “Nightfall” was arguably Asimov’s breakout work, making such an impression that, almost thirty years later, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted it the best science-fiction short story ever written. ‘Nightfall’ is Isaac Asimov’s most famous short story, and the one which catapulted him to fame. 'Nightfall' is a 1941 science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet. A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”įrom one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction comes this collection of twenty short works of fiction, arranged in order of publication from 1941 to 1967.
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