Even being unable to see the eclipse live, I felt compelled to read Nightfall again, yesterday.

One of the things I appreciate about Asimov as a scifi author is that he never goes too deeply into explaining the science or physics of his novels (no technobabbles or midichlorians), he is more interested in the Big Ideas and characters.

I'm not sure that a world like Kalgash can exist, and many details about the story could be nitpicked to death, but it doesn't make it any less fascinating and complelling.