Nightfall Summary
Isaac Asimov

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Nightfall Summary

In 1941, John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of the premier science fiction magazine at that time, asked one of the fledgling writers he mentored an intriguing question: What would happen if people saw the stars only once every thousand years? He postulated that people would go mad and asked twenty one-year old Isaac Asimov to write a story about it. The result was "Nightfall," now one of the most famous science fiction stories of...

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Isaac Asimov Biographies (3)

Isaac Asimov

2,357 words, approx. 8 pages

The author of nearly five hundred books, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is esteemed as one of the finest writers of science fiction and scientific fact in the twentieth century.Asimov was born on January 2,... Read more

Isaac Asimov

5,460 words, approx. 19 pages

By the time of his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov was widely regarded as one of the most productive and versatile writers of all time. Asimov was best-known for his science-fiction novels and popularized... Read more

Isaac Asimov

10,485 words, approx. 35 pages

While Isaac Asimov officially celebrated his birthday as 2 January 1920, his birth date is uncertain. Records were not well kept in the U.S.S.R. in the period between World War I and World War II, par... Read more

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