A vista de outra costa de Franz Rottensteiner contém uma história intitulada "A Modest Genius", de Vadim Shefner, que faz o mundo inteiro escurecer. É uma coleção de contos que foi publicada em 1973, que corresponde ao seu período de tempo.
Aqui está a abertura para essa história:
Sergei Kladesev was born on Vasilyevski Island, Leningrad. He was a strange boy. While other children were making sand pies and building castles, he was drawing sections of odd-looking machines on the sand. In the second grade he built a portable machine, powered by a pocket flashlight battery, which told each pupil how many good marks he would receive during the coming week. Grown-ups considered the machine uneducational and took it away from him.
Encontrei esse título pesquisando títulos do ISFDB por "view from a" e depois pegando o que tinha "Shore" nele. Mármore Orgânico, desde que uma das histórias tivesse um mecanismo de escurecimento da luz.
Liussa went to the window and looked out. "Sergei, what's going on?" she asked in astonishment. "It looks as though an eclipse is beginning. The whole island is in dusk and it's getting dark in the distance too."
"It's now dark over the whole earth and even on Mars and Venus. The machine uses a great deal of energy."
- de "A Modest Genius" por Vadim Shefner