Book Review: Nightfall - Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov - never heard the name, well most people haven't. He is perhaps the Shakespeare of sci-fi only not so famous. The whole robot concept is his idea. The three laws and everything have been so perfectly imagined that it can almost be said that Asimov either knows to travel in time or has somehow managed to write a manual for the scientist to work on development ! Anyways amongst Asimov's works Nightfall is considered the best. It is the story of a planet with 6 suns. The people have never been without sun light their entire life and the most dreadful thing they can imagine is to be in darkness. Well there is a eclipse that occurs every 2000 years that somehow manages to keep the planet in darkness for hours. This destroys the perfect world - the sanity of people is destroyed and most go back to being cave men. The way in which the human psyche has been presented in this work is simply amazing - to imagine a world quite so different from ours and being able to see the differences that will occur in such altered conditions is a most difficult task that Asimov has managed better than anyone of us can hope for.