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  2. Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel) - Wikipedia

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    24434629. " Nightfall " [1] is a 1941 science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has appeared in many anthologies and six collections of Asimov ...

  3. Nightfall and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    976576102. Dewey Decimal. 813.54. LC Class. PS3551.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.

  4. Nightfall - Wikipedia

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    Sunset or sundown, the daily disappearance of the Sun below the western half of the horizon. Twilight, the period during which the Sun is at most 18° below the horizon and when the sky is illuminated by indirect sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere. Nautical dusk, the last stage of twilight in the evening before night.

  5. Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Asimov (/ ˈæzɪmɒv / AZ-ih-mov; [b] c. January 2, 1920[a] – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. [2]

  6. Night Fall (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Plot. The story begins with the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, New York. A couple conducting an illicit affair on the beach witness the crash and flee the scene, having accidentally videotaped the crash and what appears to be a missile rising from the ocean towards the plane. Five years later, Anti-Terrorist Task Force (ATTF, a ...

  7. Nocturnes (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Nocturnes. (short story collection) Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro. After six novels, it is Ishiguro's first collection of short stories, though it is described by the publisher as a "story cycle". As the subtitle suggests, each of the five stories focuses on music and ...

  8. Night (memoir) - Wikipedia

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    Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about his loss of faith and increasing disgust with ...

  9. Nightfall (1988 film) - Wikipedia

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    Nightfall was the short story which helped establish Isaac Asimov's reputation when it was published in 1941. Julie Corman became aware of it in 1979 when she read a review of an Asimov anthology in the New York Times. She was attracted by a story "about people who have recognizable moral dilemmas", and bought the screen rights. [2]