Things I did today

 I've been enjoying this book of short stories by Asimov. I read A Beautiful Day, where a Door malfunctions and a nervous, uptight socialite woman and her son are impacted, as that is how they travel to other parts of the world that also have Doors. But when their Door breaks, the tech that arrives has to come in from the... door. From...outside, where there is dirt and germs! The socialite mother is horrified, while the son is merely curious. As school time neared and the Door still inoperable, and she suggests her son walk to a neighbor and use their Door. However, he doesn't. He walks all the way to school. And enjoys it! And left the school using the old emergency door that no longer alarms to go back home. He's dirty and dusty and upon bath time, his mother gingerly trashes all of his clearly contaminated clothes. The Door works now, so this nightmare is over. Except he gets up early to walk to school again, this time punctual for classes. And he walks home again. It k...

I read Asimov's short story Nightfall last weekend. It was excellent, depicting a civilization on a planet that was orbiting 6 stars. Asimov does an excellent job revealing just bits as the story moves along! If you'd like to read it and don't want to be spoiled, then don't read the rest of this post. The story is only 34 pages long. There's just not enough to review without spoiling! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story starts with a journalist attempting to get an apocalyptic story from a scientist as the scientific organization were warning people about a celestial event that would envelope the world in darkness. There was another group, the cultists, that were predicting that the planet would end up in a cave and never come out. As this planet never had all six suns 'set' at the same time, the people never experienced darkness. The last time all six suns set, everyone died. ...