Nightfall and Other Stories
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Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) is a book collecting 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. The main criteria for inclusion were that they had to be quality stories, but not included before in any anthologies edited by Dr. Asimov himself.
Science fiction
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short stories by Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
. Asimov added a brief introduction to each story, explaining some aspect of the story's history and/or how it came to be written. The main criteria for inclusion were that they had to be quality stories, but not included before in any anthologies edited by Dr. Asimov himself.
Contents
- "Nightfall" (first published in Sept. 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction)
- "Green PatchesGreen Patches"Green Patches" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction under as "Misbegotten Missionary" and reprinted under its present title in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories.-Plot summary:A research...
" (first published in Nov. 1950 issue of Galaxy Science FictionGalaxy Science FictionGalaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by an Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break in to the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L...
as "Misbegotten Missionary") - "Hostess" (first published in May 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction)
- "Breeds There a Man...?Breeds There a Man...?"Breeds There a Man...?" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1951 issue of Astounding and reprinted in the 1967 collection Through a Glass, Clearly and the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories.-Plot summary:Elwood Ralson, a brilliant but...
" (first published in June 1951 issue of Astounding Science Fiction) - "C-ChuteC-Chute"C-Chute" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the October 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and later appeared in Asimov's collections Nightfall and Other Stories and The Best of Isaac Asimov ....
" (first published in Oct. 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction) - "In a Good Cause-In a Good Cause-"In a Good Cause—" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in a 1951 edition of the anthology New Tales of Space and Time and was reprinted in the collection Nightfall and Other Stories .-Plot summary:...
(first published in New Tales of Space and Time, 1951) - "What If-" (first published in Summer 1952 issue of FantasticFantastic (magazine)Fantastic was an American digest-size fantasy and science fiction magazine, published from 1952 to 1980. It was founded by Ziff-Davis as a fantasy companion to Amazing Stories. Early sales were good, and Ziff-Davis quickly decided to switch Amazing from pulp format to digest, and to cease...
) - "SallySally (Asimov)"Sally" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the May-June 1953 issue of Fantastic and later appeared in the Asimov collections Nightfall and Other Stories and The Complete Robot .-Plot summary:...
" (first published in May/June 1953 issue of Fantastic) - "Flies" (first published in June 1953 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science FictionThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science FictionThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
) - "Nobody Here But-" (first published in Star Science Fiction Stories, 1953)
- "It's Such a Beautiful DayIt's Such a Beautiful Day"It's Such A Beautiful Day" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in 1954 in Star Science Fiction Stories No.3, an anthology of original stories edited by Frederik Pohl, and later reprinted in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories.-Plot summary:Set in...
" (first published in Star Science Fiction Stories #3, 1954) - "StrikebreakerStrikebreaker (Asimov)Strikebreaker is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories under the title "Male Strikebreaker" and reprinted in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories under the original title "Strikebreaker"...
" (first published in Jan. 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories as "Male Strikebreaker") - "Insert Knob A in Hole BInsert Knob A in Hole BInsert Knob A in Hole B is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was first published in the December 1957 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories....
" (first published in Dec. 1957 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) - "The Up-To-Date SorcererThe Up-To-Date Sorcerer"The Up-To-Date Sorcerer" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the July 1958 issue of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories....
" (first published in July 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) - "Unto the Fourth GenerationUnto the Fourth Generation"Unto the Fourth Generation" is a fantasy short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and has been reprinted in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories and The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov...
" (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 StoriesAmazing StoriesAmazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...
as "Playboy and the Slime God") - "The Machine that Won the WarThe Machine that Won the WarThe Machine that Won the War is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the October 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories and Robot Dreams...
" (first published in Oct. 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) - "My Son, the PhysicistMy Son, the Physicist"My Son, the Physicist" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was commissioned by Hoffman Electronics Corporation and appeared in February 1962 in Scientific American...
" (first published in Feb. 1962 issue of Scientific AmericanScientific AmericanScientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
) - "Eyes Do More Than SeeEyes Do More Than SeeEyes Do More Than See is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.In 1964, Playboy magazine approached several science fiction writers to create short-short stories based on a photograph of a clay head without ears. The selected stories--Arthur C. Clarke's "Playback", Frederik Pohl's...
" (first published in April 1965 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) - "SegregationistSegregationist (Asimov)"Segregationist" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written in April 1967 and was first published in December in Abbottempo, a magazine produced by Abbott Laboratories, then later included in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories , The Complete Robot and Robot...
" (first published in Book 4 of Abbottempo, 1967)