Nightfall

Name: Nightfall
Author: Isaac Asimov

1941 short story by Isaac Asimov

Written workliterary workQ1138091

Author: Isaac Asimov
Released: 1941
Language: American English
Genre: science fiction

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"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 ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has appeared in many anthologies and six collections of Asimov stories. In 1968, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted "Nightfall" the best science fiction short story written prior to the 1965 establishment of the Nebula Awards and included it in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964.

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Country of origin: United States
Different from: Nightfall
Place of publication: United States
Title: Nightfall
Set in environment: fictional planet
Form of creative work: short story
Published in: Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
Nightfall and Other Stories
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One

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