Taking the Stars for Granted

If We Only Saw the Stars One Night Every 100 Years > Contrast > Hypothesizing on a World Without Stars
Asimov and Carson speculate on worlds where they cannot see the stars.

 If Seeing the Stars was a Rarity

If the Stars Only Came Out One Night in 1,000 Years > Similarity > If We Only Saw the Stars One Night Every 100 Years
Emerson and Carson both imagine a world where the stars are not something perpetually overhead, where humanity would not take them so easily for granted.