![]() ![]() ![]() A day when walking outdoors becomes a sign of psychosis. The discovery that Earthlings are being destroyed by a mysterious kind of psychological virus. Asimov added a brief introduction to each story, explaining some aspect of the story's history and/or how it came to be written. Machines that learn to think for themselves-and direct their thoughts to overturning the establishment. Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) is a collection of 20 previously published science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov. ![]() “Nightfall,” published when the author was only twenty-one, was arguably his 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 writtenThe other stories in the collection span far and wide: A dedicated scientist who whips up his own love potion. ![]() 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. Nightfall and Other Stories is a collection of 20 pieces of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, including, of course, the novelette Nightfall, one of his most famous works. 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”From 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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