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Old 02-17-2021, 08:38 PM   #29739
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I have read the short story. Didn't Asimov later turn that one into a full length novel? I might be confusing that with van Vogt's The Weapons Shop. IIRC, that was a short story turned into a novel as well. Was it both van Vogt's and Asimov's stories that got this treatment? It's been many decades since I read either of these.
Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg co-authored a novel length version of Nightfall (published 1990). I liked the first two-thirds of it, but the last third I found unconvincing. My comment at the time I last read it: Some of the ideas behind the last third are interesting... I just don't feel that they come across very well.
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