Nightfall and Other Stories

By Isaac Asimov

Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) is a collection of twenty Isaac Asimov short stories. It opens with Nightfall, about a planet with six suns whose people see darkness and the stars only once every two thousand years. The other stories span Asimov's early career and show the range of his science fiction before the Foundation and robot novels made him famous.

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• Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Otherwise, I'm a bit old-school. Sci-fi seems to make great short stories. One from Isaac Asimov comes to mind: Nightfall (1941) ... I think about those often.”