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Nightfall and Other Stories
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bookshelves: 5-star, best-of-2021, classic, page-turner, science-fiction, short-stories
Feb 15, 2021
bookshelves: 5-star, best-of-2021, classic, page-turner, science-fiction, short-stories
This series of gem like stories, each crafted, seemingly, with loving care, but was probably written for a magazine with a deadline, is the best that American SCI FI literature can offer us.
I do consider Nightfall the best short story collection I've ever read. The second is The Complete Short Stories of Hercule Poirot and the 3rd is the Jungle Books by Kipling.
Isaac Asimov never bettered this collection of short stories. Most of his books are unreadable. He was prolific but his work ethic and his upbringing in a nascent Cold War with Russia blunted his longevity in most cases. But not here. This is science fiction at its finest.
I do consider Nightfall the best short story collection I've ever read. The second is The Complete Short Stories of Hercule Poirot and the 3rd is the Jungle Books by Kipling.
Isaac Asimov never bettered this collection of short stories. Most of his books are unreadable. He was prolific but his work ethic and his upbringing in a nascent Cold War with Russia blunted his longevity in most cases. But not here. This is science fiction at its finest.
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Reading Progress
February 15, 2021
– Shelved
February 15, 2021
– Shelved as:
5-star
February 15, 2021
– Shelved as:
best-of-2021
February 15, 2021
– Shelved as:
classic
February 15, 2021
– Shelved as:
page-turner
February 15, 2021
– Shelved as:
science-fiction
February 16, 2021
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Started Reading
February 16, 2021
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Finished Reading
March 21, 2021
– Shelved as:
short-stories

