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From: ExtrapolationAs a psychologist specializing in psychobiography, and as a science fiction fan for over thirty-five years, I have become intrigued by the psychology of science fiction writers. Why do they write, and why science...
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From: The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov, DoubledayBefore writing "Nightfall" Asimov had written thirty-one stories and sold seventeen (four more would sell eventually). "Marooned Off Vesta," perhaps "The Callistan Menace," and "Homo Sol," along with the robot stories...
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From: ExtrapolationAs a psychologist specializing in psychobiography, and as a science fiction fan for over thirty-five years, I have become intrigued by the psychology of science fiction writers. Why do they write, and why science...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 17. )"Nightfall," one of Isaac Asimov's earliest and best-known short stories, presents an alien world in crisis. Lagash has six suns and perpetual daylight, yet it is populated by humans, and they are struggling to confront...
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From: Science Fiction StudiesWhen Asimov sat down, a sheet of paper in front of him, blank except for Emerson's quotation from Nature as a heading, what a great feat of extrapolation was involved in pounding out "Nightfall" (1941), one of his best...