To make a titanic work of science fiction, one might think one would need to come up with a titanically long book – maybe even a titanically long series to qualify *cough* Dune *cough wheeze*. Ahem. One would be wrong. Sometimes a big punch can come in a little package – like splitting an atom! Except without all the devastating costs to humanity! Instead of developing big exploding weapons, these authors used their science brains to come up with 10 of the best sci-fi short stories ever. Humanity is titanically better for it.
Nightfall
(Bantam Books)Nightfall was one of Isaac Asimov’s first ever published sci-fi short stories, written when he was still in his early 20’s. While you at that age were probably propped over the toilet heaving up twelve Jack and Cokes, Asimov was penning one of the most enduring sci-fi short stories ever written. The action takes place on a distant planet orbited by multiple suns, kept in perpetual daylight for thousands of years. As a result, its population has an extreme fear of the dark, and when a doomsday cult begins prophesying the coming of night and emergence of the “stars” a group of scientists stand by to observe the once in a millennia phenomenon – and get the daylights scared out of them. No elder gods. No netherworld portals. No tentacles. This work of cosmic horror proves what anyone who looks too long into the night sky already knows: space is scary af.
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