Nightfall and Other Stories
Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) is an anthology book compiling 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
In the introduction for the title story, 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
- "Nightfall" (first published in September 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction)
- "Green Patches" (first published in November 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction as "Misbegotten Missionary")
- "Hostess" (first published in May 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction)
- "Breeds There a Man...?" (first published in June 1951 issue of Astounding Science Fiction)
- "C-Chute" (first published in October 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction)
- "In a Good Cause— (first published in New Tales of Space and Time, 1951)
- "What If—" (first published in Summer 1952 issue of Fantastic)
- "Sally" (first published in May/June 1953 issue of Fantastic)
- "Flies" (first published in June 1953 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- "Nobody Here But—" (first published in Star Science Fiction Stories, 1953)
- "It's Such a Beautiful Day" (first published in Star Science Fiction Stories #3, 1954)
- "Strikebreaker" (first published in January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories as "Male Strikebreaker")
- "Insert Knob A in Hole B" (first published in December 1957 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- "The Up-to-Date Sorcerer" (first published in July 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- "Unto the Fourth Generation" (first published in April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (first published in March 1961 issue of Amazing Stories as "Playboy and the Slime God")
- "The Machine That Won the War" (first published in October 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- "My Son, the Physicist" (first published in February 1962 issue of Scientific American)
- "Eyes Do More Than See" (first published in April 1965 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- "Segregationist" (first published in Book 4 of Abbottempo, 1967)
gollark: Maybe the design was bad or maybe people messed up the execution. But a good design factors in some degree of problems in the execution side.
gollark: The existence of working ways to modify them as needed isn't guaranteed.
gollark: Yes. It's still a bad fire extinguisher regardless of how good the designers thought/claimed they were being.
gollark: Systems have no intentions. People in them might, and the designers probably did, and the designers also likely claimed some intention, and people also probably ascribe some to them. But that doesn't mean that the system itself "wants" to do any of those.
gollark: I think you could reasonably argue that it's better to respect institutions than ignore them because it's better for social cohesion/stability, but I don't agree that you should respect them because they're meant to be fair and because you can always get them to fix problems you experience if this isn't actually true.
References
- http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?24166
- Asimov, Isaac (1969). Nightfall, and other stories. Doubleday. pp. 1–2.
External links
- Nightfall and Other Stories title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Nightfall and Other Stories at Open Library
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