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Between “Nightfall” and “A Pale of Air” radio programs, throw in suspense’s “the Hitchhiker w/ Orson Welles” and these are 3 of the very best radio shows ever made, from the best short stories ever written
In 1980, I took the 'Astronomy Island Cruise' from NYC to Bermuda. Issack Asimov was along for the ride and to give a few talk presentations. Somewhere I have an old slide taken beside him. Something not widely known about him....he was an ass pincher. BHE
Well. It was nice that they made the effort, but sad that they didn't include the important bits. From the start this felt rushed, and I got the feeling that to understand this show fully, you'd have to have read the story already. Perhaps if they'd had an hour to work with they'd have been able to include more of the science and sociology of the short story. In particular they completely failed to prep the audience of the real reason that the stars make men go mad, its because in a world where the sun never goes down, men are so arrogant that they could never conceive of the universe being so vast as to include a virtually infinite number of stars. In the short story, the psychologist theorised that perhaps there might be as many as a dozen stars on the universe, so when the eclipse happens and they see countless thousands, no wonder they go mad, as their place in the universe is suddenly thrown into stark insignificance. Sadly this radio show completely misses that most important point. Thanks for sharing though, this is a fascinating and well preserved bit of fifties Sci fi radio!
I have not read the story so thank you for adding that important bit of information. It really does make a difference in understanding the story. I also appreciate this post I love hearing these old stories, and this one has had superb audio! Thank You for taking the time to add this, your time is greatly appreciated!
I can see that reaction happening. I remember the first time I saw the “Pale Blue Dot” taken by the Voyager 1. I kinda felt overwhelmed that, that was it. Everything that ever took a breath, everything that was ever learned, ever war fought, ever spark of love. Trillions of thinking animals over billions of years. It was all on that tiny dot, barley visible against the background of infinity. I felt so small, so insignificant.
The night drives people crazy . . . that they take torches and burn down civilization once every 2000 years. Reminds me a little of the Aegean Apocalypse, as they call it. The Aegean Apocalypse was the transition between the Bronze Age to the Iron Age around 1200 B.C. Before the Aegean Apocalypse, the Egyptians were at the height of their civilization. There was the Minoans on Crete, the City of Troy, and the Hittites in contemporary Turkey. After the collapse of all these cultures, were the Hebrews and the Greeks. No one can prove one theory correct over another. My favorite explanation is the Iron Age weaponry tore through the Bronze Age cultures. But, they'll argue, where's the iron swords? I'd say they've all corroded back into the Earth. Iron rusts. One explanation somewhat relevant to this Isaac Asimov story is plague ripped through every culture. Plague being something no one can see, they fought it with . . . fire. Evidence suggests many cities were simply burned down - mostly the temples. One could further argue that in playing with high temperatures to burn the plague, they discovered iron! - Of further note, most fires, during fire season are set by people trying to bring down civilization.
Hello Jeffrey, Seems the Bronze age collapse may have been solved ( could have been solved a long time ago!). This Luwian hieroglyphic inscription says a small city state conquered the Hittites and then went on a rampage after that. They appear to have been having fun bringing down a helpless Bronze age. What could have been their magic powers? I can think of nothing more that that they must have made iron age weaponry practical. phys.org/news/2017-10-luwian-hieroglyphic-inscription-bronze-age.html
Overpopulation and famine have a way of topling nations , and people plundering objects discover hidden knowledge . The famine eventually ends and the formerly hidden knowledge can be used by the masses.under new governments with lower populations.
I came here to say the same thing as everyone else. Everyone knows it was the sea people. No one really gives a shit what you think about iron rusting away, the scientists say that the Hittites adopted iron weapons in that region, but no one else did, it's frankly hilarious that you jumble up the Sea people burning down cities as people burning down their own cities because of plague. You deal in idiotic inferences and fairy stories relying on other people being lazy and stupid like you to fall for it in this age of Trump. As per usual the rest of us need jobs to pay the rent, meaning we had to read books sometimes, and the fucking sea people were in them, and so was the bronze age collapse because of them. Go fantasise on your own time, and cut your fucking hair, hippy.
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Enjoyable, If not a very simplistic Tale; I reckon it was partly a metaphor or deconstruction of religion.Clearly Issac was trying to tell us that environment creates the man, And environment breaks the man.We are simply products of are environment. Whether we want to admit it or not.
Loved this story many times over as a youth. Now I cry "bogus" on so many details of it. Guess I've become such a cynical old man: "but at night, when all the world's asleep, the questions run so deep for such a simple man. Won't you please tell me what we"ve learned? I know it sounds absurd, please, tell me who I am. Who I am..." (Supertramp)
Data ten........one of my all time favorite poems.... As I gaze into the mirror, What is it that I see? A gray-haired old man, (Could be my father) Staring back at me.
This story that reminds me of AIC's When The Sun Rose Again. It seems you prophesized All of this would end Were you burned away When the sun rose again?
"I only read the headlines." Omg, that is too real. So many people only read the headlines or listen to one news source.... or the blurbs from those news sources. Or what their teachers say rather than researching for themselves. Generations of lazy yes-men not taught how to think for themselves. Good, if simplistic story. But not every story needs to be complex to get the point across.
"I only read the headlines." That's what I do! Lots of them! Then at least I can see who's selling what as todays reality. And then try and source info elsewhere to find out what's actualy going on. It's a labour of love! I wonder where the idea that everyone is lazy comes from? Probably some headline somewhere I guess ;)
@@mikeshea398 I’ve always loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs as well. His inner World Series, Pelucidar, Mars and Venus series and of course the 24 books of Tarzan.
The biggest pitfall of Nightfall is: when the solar eclipse happened, it only happens on one side of the planet. The other side is still illuminated by the other 5 suns. People on this side of the planet might burn themselves, the other side will still carry on their normal lives. Civilization would not destroy itself.
Yes, that's a huge plot hole. Also, it would require a huge moon to cause a total eclipse of the entire hemisphere. Also implausible is that people never experimented with and became acclimated to dark rooms. Don't these people have eyelids they often close? Don't they ever cover their eyes? Were soldiers never trained to withstand darkness torture? Wouldn't there be lots of teenagers who question dogma and prove themselves brave by going into a room without a torch? Also, their scientists who thought about a planet revolving around a single sun and concluded life would be impossible due to periodic night neglected the possibility of tidal locking, so half the planet would always be lit by its sun and that half could be habitable. We can deduce that the planet most likely orbits one (or possibly two) of its suns, and the other nearby suns account for the lack of night. But I suspect there's no stable configuration for a system with 5 suns, and the planet would at some point in the past have been gravitationally boosted out of the system, similar to how spacecraft trajectories to the solar system's outer planets are designed to take advantage of fly-bys of inner planets for boosts. If you google the 'three body problem' you'll see that many-body systems tend to be very unstable. See also this: manyworlds.space/tag/triple-star-system/
@brothermine2292 This is not a plot hole. In the novel it is explained better. The last sun is a red dwarf, and during the eclipes, the moons apparent size is 7x than the sun, this means that it covers it for a long time, 12 hours, which is enough for the whole word to see it. About the palnet with one sun-they also said what if it rotates, but they still tought it impossible, becouse plants need light, and humans go insani in dark
Based on the comments here, some may be confusing Asimov's short story, Nightfall, with the novel adaptation by science fiction writer, Robert Silverberg. If I remember the original correctly, this radio drama read all the short story.
Cuando era niño mi madre me animaba a enfrentarme a la oscuridad... solo representa lo desconocido!... Ahora todo tiene sentido! Aré you afraid to the dark?
That planet must have some pretty dramatic temperature swings. Six suns at once would heat it up tremendously. Does this society not have artificial lighting, at least for mining? For indicators on machines? I get that it wouldn't have widespread use, but you would need it for a few uses, like medical scopes and for television displays.
I guess its pretty warm most of the time seeing as how when there was only one sun in the sky they said it freezing outside. But yeah they didn't really have a lot of artificial lighting on the planet
So if planet had 24 hour rotation every part of the planet would eventually have 12 hours of night since all the stars would be on one side of the planet. Depending on how fast the stars orbit each other though. Too bad they have no moon.
But a total eclipse is only experienced by a small portion of a planet. Hardly a reason for an entire planetary civilization to collapse or am I missing something?
Usually Asimov was good about the details... But I had a hard time picturing more than a fraction of the planet in darkness. I think this story is less about the science and more about the fiction
A planet with 6 suns .... Umm. So which sun does the planet revolve around !? Also did they never hear of electric light or oil lamps.? Strange story for Asimov to have written
There's no stable structure of stars that this would work for. But in a world without darkness for hundreds or thousands of years there wouldn't be much need for artificial lighting. Windows everywhere, open mining, etc.
A lot is wrong with this comment chain. A plannet does not revolve arround a star, it revolves arround a center of mass. When only one star is present the center of mass and the center of the one star are the same, so the plannet revolves arround the star. When 2 or more stars are present there center of mass forms the orbital center. The most common (and most stable) example of this is binary systems, where 2 stars orbit one another and planets orbit the center that is between the two stars. Also, Asimov addressed the artificial lighting aspect of this. The scientists mention that artificial light had "just been worked out", meaning it was brand new and not accessible to the general populous. Also, the mob and the scientists alike were using torches. It's less about a complete lack of light and more about experiencing the near (if not total) darkness for the first time. To address the other 2 comments: TheMonk72, the highest multiplicity star system currently known has 7 stars. The mathematical stability equations only apply to equal-mass stars (for which the max is 4), but with lower mass stars orbiting a significantly higher mass star a theoretically infinite multiplicity can be achieved. Victoria: Electricity has other uses then light bulbs. The best evidence I have of this is the fact that you're on the internet right now.
@@whyOhWhyohwhy237 Also, shouldn't a total eclipse be experienced by only a small portion of the planet? A total eclipse is the cause for darkness, right?
Well, this has just ruined Nightfall for my girlfriend who heard the story the first time via this audiobook, and also for me who made her listen to it because I'd read the original and thought it was brilliant, yet here it misses out half of the f'n story and so many of the more meaningful parts! What a load of piss!
Do you mean the novel? It started life as a short story and was expanded. This is a radio play, yes, but if you haven’t read the novel it’s pretty good.
So no electric light bulbs. Candles. No atomic power. No battery torches. No luminescence. But space observatories and radios and newspapers. Very weak tale
@@Cr-gf3gn As the sun is always shining, just use a mirror or polished metal to reflect the sunlight, it's how they archived it thousands of years ago.
The highest multiplicity (multiplicity in this case means number of stars) star system ever discovered has 7 stars. A theoretically infinite multiplicity can be achieved with many small stars orbiting a super massive star. A 6 star system, while unlikely is by no means impossible. Also, its "sun", not "son". Having 6 sons means you have 6 Male children.
This felt.....sloppy, shallow, hasty, lazy. Very illogical, bad concept, poor execution. The "hey it's on another planet, but ALL of the dialog is like 1950 America? RETCH. Newspapers? Seriously, you can't stretch your imagination better than that, Asimov? For shame. "One of out ten people came out of the dark amusement park tunnel insane, but it was very popular and made lots of money" Whaaaat???
@@paulbennett772 reckoned by whom? I love a lot of his work, but this one is just nonsensical. How can you have an advanced society that just hasnt invented artificial light yet. Its preposterous. The first words in Genesis almost was let there be light! The concept of darkness being the basis of the destruction of society just seems infantile
@@Cr-gf3gn Reckoned by the Science Fiction Writers of America, voted best short story pre-1968. Perhaps, if you can't think yourself into that world, SciFi isn't for you. Try thinking of it as allegorical, of destruction at any excuse, conflict between duty and honour, anti-science v anti-religion. Enjoy the rest of your life.
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As a youth, this story made little impression on me. Now, much older, I have a rich visceral response to it.
What is this absurd obsession with the sky of cults? The sky is the least interesting aspect of a planet.
@@thekaiser4333 Yet probably the most important.
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Yet all primitive societies - & many 'advanced' ones - have sky gods
The sun, without it, we are not.
I could stand the dark, but not the cold.
Asimov was a genius.
Damn straight!!!
Hahaha
I loved The Asimov short stories!
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Between “Nightfall” and “A Pale of Air” radio programs, throw in suspense’s “the Hitchhiker w/ Orson Welles” and these are 3 of the very best radio shows ever made, from the best short stories ever written
*Pail of Air
Wow...this is phenomenal 🔥
The short story delves into the subject deeper-read the story.One of the best.
Asimov was a legend 🙌🙌
In 1980, I took the 'Astronomy Island Cruise' from NYC to Bermuda. Issack Asimov was along for the ride and to give a few talk presentations. Somewhere I have an old slide taken beside him. Something not widely known about him....he was an ass pincher. BHE
Asimov 🛸 is a legend
Very enjoyable!
Well. It was nice that they made the effort, but sad that they didn't include the important bits. From the start this felt rushed, and I got the feeling that to understand this show fully, you'd have to have read the story already.
Perhaps if they'd had an hour to work with they'd have been able to include more of the science and sociology of the short story. In particular they completely failed to prep the audience of the real reason that the stars make men go mad, its because in a world where the sun never goes down, men are so arrogant that they could never conceive of the universe being so vast as to include a virtually infinite number of stars. In the short story, the psychologist theorised that perhaps there might be as many as a dozen stars on the universe, so when the eclipse happens and they see countless thousands, no wonder they go mad, as their place in the universe is suddenly thrown into stark insignificance. Sadly this radio show completely misses that most important point.
Thanks for sharing though, this is a fascinating and well preserved bit of fifties Sci fi radio!
Calum Carlyle thank you
I have not read the story so thank you for adding that important bit of information. It really does make a difference in understanding the story. I also appreciate this post I love hearing these old stories, and this one has had superb audio! Thank You for taking the time to add this, your time is greatly appreciated!
I can see that reaction happening. I remember the first time I saw the “Pale Blue Dot” taken by the Voyager 1. I kinda felt overwhelmed that, that was it. Everything that ever took a breath, everything that was ever learned, ever war fought, ever spark of love. Trillions of thinking animals over billions of years. It was all on that tiny dot, barley visible against the background of infinity. I felt so small, so insignificant.
@@brooklyn560 So did I. Even Carl Sagan, by his tone of voice when talking about it, felt small.
The night drives people crazy . . . that they take torches and burn down civilization once every 2000 years.
Reminds me a little of the Aegean Apocalypse, as they call it. The Aegean Apocalypse was the transition between the Bronze Age to the Iron Age around 1200 B.C. Before the Aegean Apocalypse, the Egyptians were at the height of their civilization. There was the Minoans on Crete, the City of Troy, and the Hittites in contemporary Turkey. After the collapse of all these cultures, were the Hebrews and the Greeks. No one can prove one theory correct over another.
My favorite explanation is the Iron Age weaponry tore through the Bronze Age cultures. But, they'll argue, where's the iron swords? I'd say they've all corroded back into the Earth. Iron rusts.
One explanation somewhat relevant to this Isaac Asimov story is plague ripped through every culture. Plague being something no one can see, they fought it with . . . fire. Evidence suggests many cities were simply burned down - mostly the temples. One could further argue that in playing with high temperatures to burn the plague, they discovered iron!
- Of further note, most fires, during fire season are set by people trying to bring down civilization.
oker59 it was the sea people, the sea people....
Hello Jeffrey,
Seems the Bronze age collapse may have been solved ( could have been solved a long time ago!). This Luwian hieroglyphic inscription says a small city state conquered the Hittites and then went on a rampage after that. They appear to have been having fun bringing down a helpless Bronze age. What could have been their magic powers?
I can think of nothing more that that they must have made iron age weaponry practical.
phys.org/news/2017-10-luwian-hieroglyphic-inscription-bronze-age.html
Knowledge... or shall we say the ppl who know and the ppl who can interperate the written knowledge. Starting from scratch with just memories
Overpopulation and famine have a way of topling nations , and people plundering objects discover hidden knowledge . The famine eventually ends and the formerly hidden knowledge can be used by the masses.under new governments with lower populations.
I came here to say the same thing as everyone else.
Everyone knows it was the sea people.
No one really gives a shit what you think about iron rusting away, the scientists say that the Hittites adopted iron weapons in that region, but no one else did, it's frankly hilarious that you jumble up the Sea people burning down cities as people burning down their own cities because of plague.
You deal in idiotic inferences and fairy stories relying on other people being lazy and stupid like you to fall for it in this age of Trump.
As per usual the rest of us need jobs to pay the rent, meaning we had to read books sometimes, and the fucking sea people were in them, and so was the bronze age collapse because of them.
Go fantasise on your own time, and cut your fucking hair, hippy.
Just by happen chance,
I am suffering terrible depression, due to lack of blue Skies, here in Cork, Ireland!
I will be better, when I see some blue....
💙🍀🇮🇪🤣
Enjoyable, If not a very simplistic Tale; I reckon it was partly a metaphor or deconstruction of religion.Clearly Issac was trying to tell us that environment creates the man, And environment breaks the man.We are simply products of are environment. Whether we want to admit it or not.
Sorry he would not have so considered... obviously.
Loved this story many times over as a youth. Now I cry "bogus" on so many details of it. Guess I've become such a cynical old man: "but at night, when all the world's asleep, the questions run so deep for such a simple man. Won't you please tell me what we"ve learned? I know it sounds absurd, please, tell me who I am. Who I am..." (Supertramp)
Frank Bowman without a doubt you are on to something there. Jordan Peterson would pat you on the back. :)
Bonus mark for gratuitous Supertramp quotation
Data ten........one of my all time favorite poems....
As I gaze into the mirror,
What is it that I see?
A gray-haired old man,
(Could be my father)
Staring back at me.
this is me every night.
This is a funny af comment.
This story that reminds me of AIC's When The Sun Rose Again.
It seems you prophesized
All of this would end
Were you burned away
When the sun rose again?
"I only read the headlines."
Omg, that is too real. So many people only read the headlines or listen to one news source.... or the blurbs from those news sources. Or what their teachers say rather than researching for themselves. Generations of lazy yes-men not taught how to think for themselves.
Good, if simplistic story. But not every story needs to be complex to get the point across.
"I only read the headlines." That's what I do! Lots of them! Then at least I can see who's selling what as todays reality. And then try and source info elsewhere to find out what's actualy going on. It's a labour of love! I wonder where the idea that everyone is lazy comes from? Probably some headline somewhere I guess ;)
exactly
The big 3 are: Clarke, Asimov and Bradbury in no particular order....
know your ABC's ! Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke!
There's 6 - You forgot the father Verne who started it all. Wells and Heinlein too.
@@quonomonna8126 "in no particular order...."
@@mikeshea398 I’ve always loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs as well. His inner World Series, Pelucidar, Mars and Venus series and of course the 24 books of Tarzan.
Thank you so much 😊
Skips a little.
Thank you for this.
The biggest pitfall of Nightfall is: when the solar eclipse happened, it only happens on one side of the planet. The other side is still illuminated by the other 5 suns. People on this side of the planet might burn themselves, the other side will still carry on their normal lives. Civilization would not destroy itself.
Yes, that's a huge plot hole. Also, it would require a huge moon to cause a total eclipse of the entire hemisphere.
Also implausible is that people never experimented with and became acclimated to dark rooms. Don't these people have eyelids they often close? Don't they ever cover their eyes? Were soldiers never trained to withstand darkness torture? Wouldn't there be lots of teenagers who question dogma and prove themselves brave by going into a room without a torch?
Also, their scientists who thought about a planet revolving around a single sun and concluded life would be impossible due to periodic night neglected the possibility of tidal locking, so half the planet would always be lit by its sun and that half could be habitable.
We can deduce that the planet most likely orbits one (or possibly two) of its suns, and the other nearby suns account for the lack of night. But I suspect there's no stable configuration for a system with 5 suns, and the planet would at some point in the past have been gravitationally boosted out of the system, similar to how spacecraft trajectories to the solar system's outer planets are designed to take advantage of fly-bys of inner planets for boosts. If you google the 'three body problem' you'll see that many-body systems tend to be very unstable. See also this: manyworlds.space/tag/triple-star-system/
@brothermine2292 This is not a plot hole. In the novel it is explained better. The last sun is a red dwarf, and during the eclipes, the moons apparent size is 7x than the sun, this means that it covers it for a long time, 12 hours, which is enough for the whole word to see it.
About the palnet with one sun-they also said what if it rotates, but they still tought it impossible, becouse plants need light, and humans go insani in dark
Based on the comments here, some may be confusing Asimov's short story, Nightfall, with the novel adaptation by science fiction writer, Robert Silverberg. If I remember the original correctly, this radio drama read all the short story.
Asimov is THE MAN!
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"No light as far as you can see. " 😆
Cuando era niño mi madre me animaba a enfrentarme a la oscuridad... solo representa lo desconocido!... Ahora todo tiene sentido! Aré you afraid to the dark?
There was another story with this premise, but when it goes dark everybody was thrilled and happy to see the stars.
Found this story thanks to my friend K-low!
I don't understand this story, if the planet has 6 suns how can you have an eclipse that causes total darkness on the entire planet ?
That planet must have some pretty dramatic temperature swings.
Six suns at once would heat it up tremendously.
Does this society not have artificial lighting, at least for mining? For indicators on machines? I get that it wouldn't have widespread use, but you would need it for a few uses, like medical scopes and for television displays.
I guess its pretty warm most of the time seeing as how when there was only one sun in the sky they said it freezing outside. But yeah they didn't really have a lot of artificial lighting on the planet
Basically Pitch Black minus Vin Diesel and alien pterodactyls
Piggy Oink Oink 50 years before.
So if planet had 24 hour rotation every part of the planet would eventually have 12 hours of night since all the stars would be on one side of the planet. Depending on how fast the stars orbit each other though. Too bad they have no moon.
How many of today's stories will sound this ludicrously campy and unrealistic in 2091?
But a total eclipse is only experienced by a small portion of a planet. Hardly a reason for an entire planetary civilization to collapse or am I missing something?
I don't think you're missing something. However, up to half of the world could be in total eclipse if the moon is large enough.
Usually Asimov was good about the details... But I had a hard time picturing more than a fraction of the planet in darkness.
I think this story is less about the science and more about the fiction
Spooky !
They don't have blind people?
they said they did and that they are some of the peiple who wrote the of revalations
A planet with 6 suns .... Umm. So which sun does the planet revolve around !? Also did they never hear of electric light or oil lamps.? Strange story for Asimov to have written
There's no stable structure of stars that this would work for. But in a world without darkness for hundreds or thousands of years there wouldn't be much need for artificial lighting. Windows everywhere, open mining, etc.
With six suns and a sun shining in the sky all day and never any night, you wouldn't need electricity.
A lot is wrong with this comment chain.
A plannet does not revolve arround a star, it revolves arround a center of mass. When only one star is present the center of mass and the center of the one star are the same, so the plannet revolves arround the star. When 2 or more stars are present there center of mass forms the orbital center. The most common (and most stable) example of this is binary systems, where 2 stars orbit one another and planets orbit the center that is between the two stars.
Also, Asimov addressed the artificial lighting aspect of this. The scientists mention that artificial light had "just been worked out", meaning it was brand new and not accessible to the general populous. Also, the mob and the scientists alike were using torches. It's less about a complete lack of light and more about experiencing the near (if not total) darkness for the first time.
To address the other 2 comments:
TheMonk72, the highest multiplicity star system currently known has 7 stars. The mathematical stability equations only apply to equal-mass stars (for which the max is 4), but with lower mass stars orbiting a significantly higher mass star a theoretically infinite multiplicity can be achieved.
Victoria: Electricity has other uses then light bulbs. The best evidence I have of this is the fact that you're on the internet right now.
@@whyOhWhyohwhy237
Quite right! (I'll forgive the spelling)
@@whyOhWhyohwhy237 Also, shouldn't a total eclipse be experienced by only a small portion of the planet? A total eclipse is the cause for darkness, right?
Is this the entire short story being read or is it an adaptation? I am looking for the short story in audio.
Well, this has just ruined Nightfall for my girlfriend who heard the story the first time via this audiobook, and also for me who made her listen to it because I'd read the original and thought it was brilliant, yet here it misses out half of the f'n story and so many of the more meaningful parts! What a load of piss!
Do you mean the novel? It started life as a short story and was expanded. This is a radio play, yes, but if you haven’t read the novel it’s pretty good.
@@seabunnyvoyager3524 Nah, it was still only about 15 pages or something the version I read.
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So no electric light bulbs. Candles. No atomic power. No battery torches. No luminescence. But space observatories and radios and newspapers. Very weak tale
Why would you need to invent light bulbs if there is always a shining sun?
@@sallyone7029 indoors? underground? tunnel? how could you have anything electric and not have discovered electric light
@@Cr-gf3gn
As the sun is always shining, just use a mirror or polished metal to reflect the sunlight, it's how they archived it thousands of years ago.
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Stinks
unlike other writer the science is just not there, "six sons" with gravity... silly
Didn’t they don’t a real star system with 5 or 6 stars?
The highest multiplicity (multiplicity in this case means number of stars) star system ever discovered has 7 stars. A theoretically infinite multiplicity can be achieved with many small stars orbiting a super massive star. A 6 star system, while unlikely is by no means impossible. Also, its "sun", not "son". Having 6 sons means you have 6 Male children.
This felt.....sloppy, shallow, hasty, lazy. Very illogical, bad concept, poor execution. The "hey it's on another planet, but ALL of the dialog is like 1950 America? RETCH. Newspapers? Seriously, you can't stretch your imagination better than that, Asimov? For shame.
"One of out ten people came out of the dark amusement park tunnel insane, but it was very popular and made lots of money" Whaaaat???
Asimov did some really awful stories to go along with his good ones
I've not read any. Can you enlighten me?
@@paulbennett772 this one
@@Cr-gf3gn
Reckoned to be one of the best SciFi stories ever written, yet you say it's really awful? Words fail me
@@paulbennett772 reckoned by whom? I love a lot of his work, but this one is just nonsensical. How can you have an advanced society that just hasnt invented artificial light yet. Its preposterous. The first words in Genesis almost was let there be light! The concept of darkness being the basis of the destruction of society just seems infantile
@@Cr-gf3gn
Reckoned by the Science Fiction Writers of America, voted best short story pre-1968. Perhaps, if you can't think yourself into that world, SciFi isn't for you. Try thinking of it as allegorical, of destruction at any excuse, conflict between duty and honour, anti-science v anti-religion. Enjoy the rest of your life.
Yawn....