In 1941, Asimov wrote "Nightfall," the story that was later voted best science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Naval Air Experimental Station, and then served from 1945 to 1946 as a corporal in the Army. During World War II, he worked in the U.S. Graduating from college with a degree in chemistry in 1939, Asimov then received a master's degree in 1941 and a Ph.D. He sold his first story when he was eighteen. An extraordinary student, he graduated from high school when he was only fifteen years old.
Having taught himself to read before he was five, Asimov voraciously read all the magazines the store carried. His parents owned a series of candy stores where Asimov worked until he left college. Author Biographyīorn in Russia on Januto Judah and Anna Rachel Berman Asimov, Isaac Asimov and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when he was three. "Nightfall" is a psychological thriller as scientists fight ignorance, zealotry, madness, and their own fears of the unknown. However, a religious cult is also predicting the phenomenon as a judgment against evil. If the two are related, will the darkness once again cause a hysteria that will destroy the world? As the scientists prepare for calamity, they are joined by a newspaper reporter, and all hope to save future generations from fear through a record of factual knowledge. They are aware, based upon archaeological studies, that civilization seems to have been destroyed about every two thousand years, the same time period of the occurrence of the eclipses. However, scientists at Saro University are predicting a total eclipse of all the suns at once. The concept of darkness is mysterious and frightening. Astronomical science has not yet reached the point of being able to look beyond the suns. With no nighttime, the stars cannot be seen and therefore are not known.
To describe a population to whom the appearance of stars would be a rare phenomenon, Asimov created the planet Lagash where there are six suns and perpetual daylight. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941, it now appears in dozens of anthologies, but is perhaps most easily found in Nightfall and Other Stories or another of Asimov's own anthologies The Best of Isaac Asimov. The result was "Nightfall," now one of the most famous science fiction stories of all time. Campbell, Jr., editor of the premier science fiction magazine at that time, asked one of the fledgling writers he mentored an intriguing question: What would happen if people saw the stars only once every thousand years? He postulated that people would go mad and asked twenty-one-year old Isaac Asimov to write a story about it.
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