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Jan 1, 2001 · Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg. 4.05. 36,502 ratings1,127 reviews. In 1941, Astounding Science Fiction magazine published a short story by a little-known writer named Isaac Asimov. The story was called "Nightfall", and many years later it has long been recognized as a classic, its author a legend.
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Nightfall is a 1988 American science fiction film written and directed by Paul Mayersberg, based on the 1941 short story of the same name by Isaac Asimov.
Nightfall was interesting. One of its more profound features was the dawning realization that its people truly have no familiarity with the dark. The world comes off implicitly as 1940s America at first. We hear about the cave, or the concept of going into a cave to experience darkness.
Nov 7, 1990 · Asimov's long story Nightfall (1941), written when he was just 21, concerns the inhabitants of a planet with six suns. Periodically, only one sun of the six hangs in the sky, sad, every two thousand years, this is blotted out by an eclipse.
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Aug 21, 2017 · “Nightfall” became an incredibly popular story, and when the Science Fiction Writers of America polled its membership to put together its first Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthology, “Nightfall” came out on top: the best story of them all.
Halo: Nightfall. Jameson Locke (Mike Colter) and his team investigate the origins of a biological attack on the colony world of Sedra. Rent Halo: Nightfall on Fandango at Home, Prime Video,...
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Rating 8/10. This is the classic short story from Isaac Asimov that sees a planet and its population, afraid of the dark in the extreme, coming to terms with the fact they are only a small part of an infinite universe. The planet Lagash has six suns and a perpetual day.