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Nightfall and Other Stories

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Nightfall and Other Stories
AuthorIsaac Asimov
Cover artistAmelia S. Edwards[1]
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, short story collection
Published1969
PublisherDoubleday
Publication placeUnited States
Pages343 (First edition)
OCLC976576102
813.54
LC ClassPS3551.S5 A15 1969

Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) is a collection of 20 previously published science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov. Asimov added a brief introduction to each story, explaining some aspect of the story's history and/or how it came to be written.

Background

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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. Asimov hoped that the collection would prove that "sheer practice [had] made me more proficient, technically, with each year". He chose successful stories not included before in any anthologies edited by Asimov himself.[2]

Contents

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References

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  1. ^ "Publication: Nightfall and Other Stories". www.isfdb.org.
  2. ^ Asimov, Isaac (1969). Nightfall, and other stories. Doubleday. pp. 1–2.
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