And many more. Twenty stories: each riveting, each a classic.

A day when walking outdoors becomes a sign of psychosis. The discovery that Earthlings are being destroyed by a mysterious kind of psychological virus. Isaac Asimov began his Foundation series at the age of twenty-one, not realizing that it would one day be considered a cornerstone of science fiction. The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction. Isaac Asimovs short story Nightfall first appeared in 1941. The other stories in the collection span far and wide: Machines that learn to think for themselves-and direct their thoughts to overturning the establishment. On a planet with six suns, night is about to fall for the first time in two thousand years. Compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction, it begins with “Nightfall,” the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into total darkness and utter madness. Published when the author was only twenty-one, “Nightfall” was arguably Asimov’s breakout work, making such an impression that, almost thirty years later, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted it the best science-fiction short story ever written. A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”įrom 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.

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