![]() Īt more than 13,000 words "Nightfall" was Asimov's longest story yet, and including a bonus from Campbell he received US$166 ( 1 1⁄ 4 cents per word), more than twice any previous payment for a story. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!Ĭampbell's opinion was to the contrary: "I think men would go mad". ![]() 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. ![]()
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