It takes awhile, but Theremon slowly regains his sanity. Folimun warns that he has an angry crowd on the way, led by other Apostles, who will destroy the Observatory before they can take their sacrilegious photographs. While they argue with him, Dovim has begun to eclipse, and the scientists rush to record what they can of the event. Then Folimun 66, one of the Apostles of Flame, is discovered before he can sabotage any of their equipment. Theremon is nearly thrown out and Flashbacks reveal what occured in the past fourteen months. Meanwhile the Apostles of Flame spread the news that the Book of Revelations predicts that on the nineteenth of Theptar, when the gods will rain fire down on Kalgash for the sins of humanity.Īll five main characters gather at the Saro Observatory to record the upcoming eclipse, which will begin in a few hours. The plot follows an archaeologist (Siferra 89), an astrophysicist (Beenay 25), a psychologist (Sheerin 501), and a journalist (Theremon 762) as they collect evidence for a solar eclipse - the eponymous 'nightfall' which plunges the planet into chaos. Kalgash has six suns and therefore never experiences night. The novel dramatically expanded the original, in ways that delighted Dr Asimov, even if he was unable to participate in much of the physical writing (Asimov, by now, was only a few years from his death, and was determined to keep doing everything he could to continue publishing this was the first of Silverberg's three co-authored adaptations). Nightfall is a Novel written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, published in 1990 and based on Dr Asimov's story, ' Nightfall (1941)'.

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