![]() ![]() For instance, realizing the "hideout" must have artificial lights, before being told that. It dawns on you slowly, as you wrap your head around it, that this civilization might even have automobiles but had never bothered inventing artificial light, even so much as a torch. We hear about the cave, or the concept of going into a cave to experience darkness. The world comes off implicitly as 1940s America at first. One of its more profound features was the dawning realization that its people truly have no familiarity with the dark. I also admit that other than I,Robot (and Foundation), I've only read one Asimov short story collection before this. ![]() It was an early work of Asimov's, one which ended up in numerous published collections, and so was neglected within his own set of published works. The short stories collection preface offered a good explanation for why I hadn't before. I just read Nightfall for the first time. ![]()
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