TO THE READER Kalgash is an alien world and it is not our intention to have you think that it is identical to Earth, even though we depict its people as speaking a language that you can understand, and using terms that are familiar to you. Campbell, Jr.-and of those two terrified kids from Brooklyn who, in fear and trembling, made the awesome pilgrimage to his office, one of them in 1938 and the other in 1952. All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America November 1990 First Edition BVG In fond and reverent memory of John W. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Asimov, Isaac, 1920Nightfall / by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. Certain character and place names have been changed at the authors' discretion. This novel is based on the short story 'Nightfall' by Isaac Asimov, which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941. All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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