![]() ![]() ![]() This was also where he read the earliest science fiction magazines and aspired to write for them. After immigrating to the United States in 1922, he and his family settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up in his father’s candy store. ![]() While it’s not exactly about an eclipse, the event is a good time to look back on one particularly famous science fiction novelette, Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall.”Īsimov is considered one of the genre’s best-known authors. The image of the moon blotting out the sun is a powerful one: eclipses appear periodically throughout science fiction literature, either as visual flair in a science fiction movie, or a useful tool for a time traveler who happens to be in the right time and place to use one to escape a deadly ritual of some kind. Later today, the moon will pass in front of the sun over North America, resulting in a total solar eclipse the likes of which hasn’t been seen in decades over the continent. ![]()
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