Campbell asked Asimov to write the story after discussing with him a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: It was the 32nd story by Asimov, written while he was a graduate student in chemistry at Columbia University.
Written from 17 March to 9 April 1941 and sold on 24 April, the short story was published in the September 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under editor John W.
In 1968, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted "Nightfall" the best science fiction short story written prior to the 1965 establishment of the Nebula Awards and included it in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929–1964. The short story has been included in 48 anthologies and has appeared in six collections of Asimov's stories. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. " Nightfall" 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.
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