Nightfall and Other Stories

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

[edit] Contents

• "Nightfall" (first published in Sept. 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction)
• "Green Patches" (first published in Nov. 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 Oct. 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 Jan. 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories as "Male Strikebreaker")
• "Insert Knob A in Hole B" (first published in Dec. 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 Oct. 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "My Son, the Physicist" (first published in Feb. 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)

(The first six stories are all about nonhuman aliens, an element absent from Asimov's Robots and Foundation series.)