Nightfall

Adventures in time and space. Transcribed in future tense. The National Broadcasting Company. In cooperation with Street and Smith, Publishers of astounding science fiction bring you dimension X. Ralph Waldo Emerson speculated, if the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would man believe and adore and perceive for many generations the remembrance of the

city of God? Now this was philosophically interesting, but on the edge of the galaxy there is a planet which swings on its orbit in a cluster of six suns. These sons hang in the sky above, never less than two shine down through the entire 23.8 hours of the planet's day.

The yellow light has burned down on the planet continuously into the past, till the mind of man runneth nut to the contrary. The woman was a reporter for the Cerro City Chronicle. He covered them all, from the night police beat the politics to the sports pages.

The city editor wanted him to cover the biggest story of the year, perhaps of all time. It was an interview, a particularly difficult interview. But then, since his first days as a cub, Thurman had specialized in difficult interviews.

He didn't expect violence, though, from an astronomer. You're from that newspaper. Well, you've got a lot of gall coming here. I'll wait him in a doctor at time. It's only a job. I've read your paper.

You've been riding this observatory for two months now. You've attacked me personally. I have nothing to say to you. All right, look, this is your chance to get your side in the paper. I'll give it to you straight.

Two months ago, the observatory issued a press statement that the world was coming to an end. That's the same story that the cult of revelations has been preaching. And when a scientist backs that up, it snows.