Nightfall

Synopsis

On a planet with six suns, night is about to fall for the first time in two thousand years. The planet kalgash is on the brink of chaos--but only a handful of people realize it. Kalgash knows only the perpetual light of day; for more than two millennia, some combination of its six suns has lit up the sky. But twilight is now gathering. Soon the suns will set all at one--and the terrifying splendor of nightfall will call forth a madness that signals the end of civilization isaac asimov's short story "nightfall" first appeared in 1941.