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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I'm not really a short story person, but I may try Against the Fall of Night.
I agree re the prose. It was evident even in translation.
The Strugatsky brothers have written some good things too, but I find much of their stuff somewhat depressing. Still, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel is another of my top ten fav books (again in a superb Estonian translation from Russian). Hard to Be a God and Roadside Picnic are also good.
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As originally published, "Against The Fall of Night" would be classified as a novella or a short novel. It was published in Startling Stories, November, 1948, Volume 18, No. 2.
It was later revised and expanded in 1951 and published in book form in 1953 by Gnome Press.