Night, by John W. Campbell Jr.
Important because it was written by John W. Campbell Jr., editor MAXIMUS of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine, the man who wrote Who Goes There? (the basis for every version of The Thing ever filmed ), Night is a powerful and ahead of its time meditation on space and time. It is cold, repetitive (which, I think is a reflection of how Campbell thought time worked), and intentionally confusing, but it is also a destruction of human ego, which makes it one of the earliest Sci-Fi meditations on what it is to be us. And if that isn’t enough, it is a speculative consideration of gravity at the end of everything. This story is as cool as they get.
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