It would be interesting to try and write a reverse Nightfall story, where a civilization used to a starry sky is suddenly cut off from the view by a dense nebula opaque at almost all frequencies.
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like 90% of people in industrial societies can barely see any stars these days anyway, due to light pollution.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(nov starts out that way, but becomes a different kind of story
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”The Bubble permits no light to enter the Solar System, and as a consequence the stars can no longer be seen, causing widespread societal panic, 'claustrophobia', and terrorist action.”
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Effectively same story as mass migration from rural to urban? How much has it affected people to live in light pollution
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This exists as a subplot in one of the later Animorphs books from the 90s (as part of an advanced Civ-style videogame that was included in the book as an explanation of one of the alien species, lol)





