He chose successful stories not included before in any anthologies edited by Asimov himself. Asimov hoped that the collection would prove that "sheer practice made me more proficient, technically, with each year". In the introduction for the title story, "Nightfall," Asimov explained that although pleased by the praise it had received, he disliked "being told, over and over again" that a story he had written at the age of 21 was his best. The storey is set in a world with six suns, ensuring that the planet and its inhabitants, the people of. This storey is built around the concepts of darkness and light. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive 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. Nightfall was first written as a short storey by Isaac Asimov in 1941 and was then expanded into a full-length novel by Asimov & Silverberg in 1990 (Asimov & Silverberg, 1991). Asimov added a brief introduction to each story, explaining some aspect of the story's history and/or how it came to be written. ' Nightfall ' is a 1941 science fiction novelette by American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) is a collection of 20 previously published science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov.
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