![]() ![]() There is a cult which knows truth that their local scientists will not accept, but they have cloaked these truths in religious language and mystique. ![]() One story is somewhat heavy handed about the ends justifying any means - but the author's note before this story said that the author did not really agree with this, and it was just what it seemed natural for the characters he was writing to believe. In one story where this is not the case, it is played for laughs that everyone who is in love immediately wants to get married. When romance is an issue, there is often also sexual activity outside of marriage. The preservation or protection of life tends to be a common ground with many stories, but then the question is, whose life? Are equally sentient aliens to be expendable when humans are on the line? Is it acceptable when humans are put at risk for self-aware AI? This is a collection of short stories ranging in subject from a cult on a world which almost always lives in daylight, to a planetary mass mind, artificial intelligences, disembodied souls, religion among animals, and alien curiosity about human means of reproduction. Nightfall and Other Stories by Isaac AsimovĬlever anthology of sci-fi stories, worldview mostly humanistic, some violence and sexuality. ![]()
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