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The Story Club is back and this week I'm going back to a classic, one of my favorite stories of all time. 

Nightfall by Isaac Asimov.

This is a story that everyone ought to read at one time or another.  In the comments let me know if the story worked for you or if not, why.  If you couldn't get through it, let me know where you stopped. 

The story:

Aton 77, director of Saro University, thrust out a belligerent lower lip and glared at the young newspaperman in a hot fury.

Theremon 762 took that fury in his stride. In his earlier days, when his now widely syndicated column was only a mad idea in a cub reporter's mind, he had specialized in 'impossible' interviews. It had cost him bruises, black eyes, and broken bones; but it had given him an ample supply of coolness and self-confidence. So he lowered the outthrust hand that had been so pointedly ignored and calmly waited for the aged director to get over the worst. Astronomers were queer ducks, anyway, and if Aton's actions of the last two months meant anything; this same Aton was the queer-duckiest of the lot.

The Link

 - rick, reading

Comments

[Success Warrior]

I really enjoyed the story. It covered so much that is still relevant today. Religion vs. Science vs. in dealing with the Unknown. Fear of the unknown, inflexibility of thought, and the self destruction that comes from that fear and fixed thinking. It does so with a theme that for us on this planet sounds benign and that adds to the power of the message.

[Matt]

I'm really glad the Story Club is back. I worried that it was permanently defunct.

[jane]

I am printing this now. Will try to get to it today or tomorrow.

[Jane]

Pretty boring. I didn't care what happened to these people or why the world was ending.

Also, there were some typos, which is stupid enough, but twice they had 'bum' when they meant to have 'burn' and that's ridiculous.