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	Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered to be one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.
		Asimov was born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposes—the precise date is not certain) in Petrovichi shtetl of Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia) to Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and Judah Asimov, a Jewish family of millers.
		Isaac Asimov was a Humanist and a rationalist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Asimov (6853 words)

	Nightfall (Asimov) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Nightfall" is an influential science fiction short story (later adapted into a novel) by author Isaac Asimov, about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated at all times on all sides.
		It was the 32nd story by Asimov, written while he was working in his father's candy store and studying at Columbia University.
		The "nightfall" of the title occurs only once every 2,049 years when the sole sun on one side of the planet is eclipsed for half a day by a planetary body whose existence can only be inferred by the relatively new understanding of gravity and orbital mechanics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov) (795 words)

	Nightfall: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Nightfall is the name of a female elf (elf: (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous) character in Wendy and Richard Pini's comic book (comic book: A magazine devoted to comic strips) series, Elfquest (Elfquest: elfquest (or elfquest - fans have debated the correct capitalisation for years)...
		It was not based on the Isaac Asimov (Isaac Asimov: United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992)) short story (short story: A prose narrative shorter than a novel) of the same name.
		Nightfall (Nightfall: The time of day immediately following sunset) is the name of a series of radio plays produced by the CBC from July 1980 - June 1983.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/nightfall (224 words)

	Isaac Asimov biography, information, news, links, pictures (pics) and products (author: ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asimov was by general consensus a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered to be one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.
		Asimov remained on the faculty as an associate professor, being promoted in 1979 to full professor, and his personal papers from 1965 onward are archived at Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library, where they consume 464 boxes on 71 meters of shelf space.
		Asimov was afraid of flying, only doing so twice in his entire life (once in the course of his work at the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia during the Second World War and once returning home from the army base in Oahu in 1946).
	www.popstarsplus.com /authors_isaacasimov.htm (5402 words)

	Nightfall - TheBestLinks.com - Comic book, Elf, Isaac Asimov, Science fiction, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Nightfall is an influential science fiction short story by the late Isaac Asimov.
		Nightfall is the name of a female elf character in Wendy and Richard Pini's comic book series, Elfquest.
		Nightfall Games, creators of SLA Industries were not named after the Asimov story.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Nightfall.html (211 words)

	Asimov, The Good Doctor
		Asimov became an instructor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine in May 1949, an assistant professor in December 1951, an associate professor with tenure in July 1955, and finally a full-time writer in April 1958.
		On 30 November 1973, Asimov and Janet Jeppson espoused each other, a marriage that lasted until Asimov's death, due to the accidental contraction of AIDS during a 1983 surgery, in New York City on 6 April 1992 (Allen 28; "Past").
		Asimov's first novel, Pebble in the Sky, which takes place prior to the events in the Foundation series, appeared in 1950, followed by other novels in the same universe, The Stars, Like Dust (1951) and The Currents of Space (1952).
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue8/asimov.html (1625 words)

	Nightfall - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, in the former U.S.S.R. that is now Russia, between October 1919 and January 1920.
		Two different calendars were in use in the region where he was born, neither of which matches the calendar commonly used in Western societies, which is why even Asimov himself was unsure of his birthday.
		Isaac Asimov would avidly read the magazines for sale in the store, making sure that the magazines still looked new when he finished with them so that they could still be sold.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_701712756/Nightfall.html (164 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nightfall (Asimov)
		Nightfall is an influential science fiction short story by author Isaac Asimov.
		The "nightfall" of the title occurs only once every two thousand forty-nine years when the sole sun remaining above the horizon is occulted by a planetary body not directly observable to the planet's inhabitants.
		One notable change between "Nightfall" the short story and Nightfall the novel is that in the short story Asimov used the simplest, least complex and misleading names for objects in the story to avoid confusing the reader with irrelevant information.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov) (510 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		Isaac Asimov, however, would not feel he had been really launched until he had sold to Campbell, and it would be six months after his first sale before Campbell bought "Trends", which was published in the July 1939 'Astounding'.
		Even Isaac Asimov, not known for his modesty, regards this as an exaggeration and it is, of course, absurd to be absolute.
		Isaac Asimov was none too smitten with the idea, having hitherto written only robot short stories, but at length he capitulated, and the result was "The Caves of Steel" (1954).
	www.kruse.demon.co.uk /asimov.htm (2455 words)

	Review of "Nightfall"
		Asimov was always befuddled by this story’s enormous success, and I must confess to sharing his befuddlement.
		It’s among his most popular stories, it’s been turned into a so-so novel (see Nightfall) and a horrible movie, it’s been satirized in a Maureen Birnbaum story, it was voted the best sf story of all time in more than one poll—but it’s far from Asimov’s best.
		And I have to admit that Asimov is write in his assessment that the insert John Campbell made towards the end of the story is glaring and unnecessary.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Stories/Story185.html (250 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bio: Isaac Asimov is one of the select group of authors credited with establishing science fiction as serious literature, as well as one of the most recognized names in the publishing world.
		With "Nightfall," Asimov triggered a spark of awareness in the publishing community that science fiction could be more than Buck Rogers comic books.
		When Asimov mentions the communications satellite that was first conceived by his friend and colleague Arthur C. Clarke in 1945, Franklin recognizes it as the key to carrying out their plan to bring the world closer together.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/IsaacAsimoveBooks.htm (2247 words)

	Isaac Asimov Home Page
		Asimov developed the Three Laws (with the help of his editor John W. Campbell) because he was tired of the science fiction stories of the 1920s and 1930s in which the robots, like Frankenstein's creation, turned on their creators and became dangerous monsters.
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, in 1920.
		At their virtual history exhibit is a letter from Asimov to an editor at Horn Book, after he received an unexpectedly large payment, asking to make sure that he wasn't overpaid.
	www.asimovonline.com (3421 words)

	Review of Nightfall
		The novelizations were, strictly speaking, done entirely by Robert Silverberg, although he worked with Asimov who supervised and approved what he did.
		Silverberg here, of course, is falling perforce victim somewhat to Asimov’s anti-religious bias in his earlier works and so is not entirely at fault.
		He also gained some of the expansion by adding to the story at the beginning and end, and it is only in the last third, dedicated to the after-the-eclipse stuff, that the plot heads off into left field and sails over the fence.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book457.html (373 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Arthur C Clark & Isaac Asimov / Asimov's Written Works
		The headliner of this collection is "Nightfall," Asimov's classic story of a planet where the sun never sets.
		Plot: This novel expands on Asimov's short story "Nightfall" by telling the story of what happens when the sun sets on a distant planet for the first time in two thousand years.
		Plot: This novel expands on Asimov's short story "The Ugly Little Boy" by telling the full heart-wrenching story of a young boy pulled forward 40,000 years in time from his Neanderthal family and the scientist who becomes his surrogate mother.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /scifi/other/sf-book2.htm (1867 words)

	NIGHTFALL - ISAAC ASIMOV & ROBERT SILVERBERG
		Based upon Isaac Asimov's short story of the same name, this full-length workup is simply fantastic.
		I have no idea how much of this book was written by each author, or even if Asimov's contribution was simply the short story and Silverberg expanded it alone.
		The story doesn't end at nightfall, for there is a morning after.
	books.jayslair.com /ia_nightfall.html (1059 words)

	Nightfall Study Guide & Literature Chapter Summaries
		The result was ‘‘Nightfall,’’ now one of the most famous science fiction stories of all time.
		To describe a population to whom the appearance of stars would be a rare phenomenon, Asimov created the planet Lagash where there are six suns and perpetual daylight.
		‘‘Nightfall’’ is a psychological thriller as scientists fight ignorance, zealotry, madness, and their own fears of the unknown.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-nightfall (334 words)

	Amazon.com: Nightfall (Bantam Spectra Book): Books: Isaac Asimov,Robert Silverberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Nightfall" is about the fragility of the human mind, its stubborness toward accepting change, and its inability to overcome monumental change in the face of a sudden epoch thrust upon mankind's collective psyche.
		Although the third act of the novel is not as tightly written, "Nightfall" remains an engrossing work of science fiction by one of the great masters of the genre, Isaac Asimov, in turn ably assisted by notable contemporary Robert Silverberg.
		Asimov's trademark unornamented style is not an issue, and anyone can have a guess at how Silverberg's contribution helped flesh out the story.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553290991?v=glance (2534 words)

	Disposable Lit: Nightfall
		(Asimov once spoke of his writing style as a clear pane of glass designed to show the world on the other side transparently, as opposed to stained glass which distracts from the view.) If Bob Silverberg effectively ghostwrote the novel, he absorbed the elder statesman's style perfectly.
		Not surprising; Dr. Asimov was one of those folks who tend to speak of (and judge) "religion" as a homogenous lump, which makes about as much sense as treating "government" or "architecture" or "language" or any other analogous term as a description, instead of a label for an entire category of human endeavor.
		Asimov and Silverberg are famous in the field for good reason.
	www.coldfusionvideo.com /book/nightfall.html (1193 words)

	Books
		As with a number of Asimov stories, the individual characters are not terribly memorable here, but the world they inhabit and its implications are—particularly, here, the vivid image of a computer saddled with the dark side of every human being to mull over and analyze.
		Asimov tries for a poetic effect here and very nearly manages it—but a miss is as good as a mile and the result is something which just doesn’t work.
		Asimov also goes to great pains to disguise the fact that his protagonist is a woman as an illustration that when the protagonist’s gender doesn’t matter, one can work as well one way as the other.
	books.zog.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=bookdetail&book_id=217 (3532 words)

	Nightfall (2000) (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Okay, in Asimov's story, a technologically secure and superficially confident society falls to ruin because they burn books and civilization itself in the one night they experience in a 1000 years.
		In the movie, a superstitious voodoo society on the verge of collapse is made no worse by the first night in a thousand years.
		One would think that the first nightfall in centuries would be something.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0249840 (288 words)

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		But since there are lots of omnibuses, and dupilcations, one could get all the material by buying only ~37 different books (or nearly 1/2 of the titles are redundant!).
		Asimov has written massive amounts of non-fiction (e.g.
		But since there are lots of omnibuses, and duplications, one could get all the material by buying only ~37 different books (or nearly 1/2 of the titles are redundant!).
	www.textfiles.com /sf/asimovis.aac (476 words)

	Review of Nightfall and Other Stories
		The fact is that it is the first book I ever read by Asimov based solely upon the author’s name, and it is the third book by Asimov I ever purchased (the first two being Environments Out There and Fantastic Voyage).
		It is also one of Asimov’s first collections where stories are included simply because he hadn’t anthologized them yet and not because of their individual merit.
		In short, while this is a strong collection of Asimov’s fiction, it is somehow not a collection of Asimov’s typical fiction—indeed, if I were to go through the body of Asimov’s shorter works and come up with a list of the “non-Asimovian” stories by Asimov, it would pretty much be Nightfall and Other Stories.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book098.html (646 words)

	Wired 12.07: Rise of the Machines
		The all-purpose personal robot is expected to have such wide appeal that it will shift the ratio of humans to bots from about 15 to 1 to 5 to 1.
		As with all of Asimov's stories, the movie revolves around his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of rules governing android behavior.
		Born in a Russian shtetl, Asimov immigrated to the US when he was 3.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.07/machines.html (1043 words)

	WVU Libraries: Isaac Asimov Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When an archaeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending darkness of the very first Nightfall.
		Science struggles against superstition as the people race to comprehend the approaching Nightfall-- the end of the world as they know it.
		Note(s): Based on the story by Isaac Asimov./ Participants: David Carradine, Jennifer Burns, Joseph Hodge./ Audience: Rated R.
	www.libraries.wvu.edu /exhibits/asimov/archives/h.htm (109 words)

	The Greatest Literature of All Time - Nightfall
		The novel Nightfall was expanded from the story in collaboration with the same Robert Silverberg in 1990.
		The concept of "Nightfall" (the short story) is simplicity itself.
		A planet with six suns is always bathed in light, as the sky is never without at least one sun in sight—as far as its inhabitants have known.
	www.editoreric.com /greatlit/books/Nightfall.html (320 words)

	Visions of Serenity: Nightfall by Isaac Asimov,Robert Silverberg. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Visions of Serenity: Nightfall by Isaac Asimov,Robert Silverberg.
		Still, the only truly jarring parts were the long flashbacks stitched into the beginning of the middle.
		Although the plot has a definite "fluffed-out" feel, the masterful writing style of Asimov, especially combined with Silverberg's talent at drawing nuanced and emotional characters, always keeps it from becoming stale.
	www.foxyshadis.com /review/30 (399 words)

	I, Robot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Between the two instances of complete failure by the Nightfall cinematographers, Bicentennial Man was released in 1999, and proved that it was worthy enough to take the name of one of Asimov’s masterpieces.
		Here’s the issue: ill guided as the Nightfall film creators may have been, they did have enough sense to stick as closely as they could to the original story while making what they thought was an entertaining movie.
		Even more insulting is that they completely ignored the existing screenplay written by one of Asimov’s friends and almost as equally talented writer, Harlan Ellison.
	students.ou.edu /C/James.L.Carmer-1/irobot.htm (722 words)

	ElectricStory.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Isaac Asimov is one of the select group of authors credited with establishing science fiction as serious literature, as well as one of the most recognized names in the publishing world.
		With "Nightfall," Asimov showed the publishing community that science fiction could be more than Buck Rogers comic books.
		In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future -- a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
	www.electricstory.com /authors/author.aspx?authorid=92 (621 words)

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