Mass Market Paperback, 339 pages

English language

Published Aug. 1, 1991 by Spectra.

ISBN:
978-0-553-29099-8
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This book is an expansion of the short story originally authored by Isaac Asimov. It is a collaboration between Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.

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Review of 'Nightfall' on 'Goodreads'

Una muy buena historia. Había leído el cuento corto antes y me desde el primer momento me pareció fascinante. La novela extiende muy bien la premisa central, y aunque el final me pareció algo apresurado, ya se volvió uno de mis libros favoritos.

Review of 'Nightfall' on 'Storygraph'

Imagine a parallel universe, in which we lived in a planet that had six suns instead of one. A planet where at least one sun is always visible in the sky, a place where it never gets dark. A planet without night. What would happen if all of a sudden, an eclipse occurs and for the first time in thousands of years the whole planet is unexpectedly dark? Moreover, what if we didn’t know that the sky is filled with stars at night?

Would we be surprised at the day of the eclipse, enjoy the dark sky filled with stars and think how wonderful it is or would we become terrified and loose our sanity?

“Nightfall” is a wonderful “What if...?” kind of story, in which the worse scenario is told, leaving us wondering about the consequences of a total unpredicted change in our scientific beliefs. In addition, discussing how …

Review of 'Nightfall' on 'Goodreads'

One of the greatest Asimov's short novels I had the pleasure of reading. Can you imagine what happenned to us if we've at night, and in one entire continnent, the electricity were ran out !? And what in one entire planet. It is true, being us, humans, able, as species that lives under the light of the Sun, were able to conquer the Night after the invention of the electric lamp, but what can happend if those things where gone suddenly !? This way, you can start to feel how the inhabitants of this planet suddenly fallen into darkness would start to feel. The Mayans believed that one day the Sun would not rise anymore. It could not have been the end the Day, but the end of one entire civilization. The Night can come in different ways, it doesn't need to be the necessarily by the means of the …

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  • Science Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction - General
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