A Pail of Air

A Pail of Air is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber which appeared in the December 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and was dramatized on the radio show X Minus One in March 1956.

The story is narrated by a ten-year-old boy living on Earth after it has become a rogue planet, having been torn away from the Sun by a passing 'dark star'.

The loss of solar heating has caused the Earth's atmosphere to freeze into thick layers of 'snow'.

The boy's father had worked with a group of other scientists to construct a large shelter, but the earthquakes accompanying the disaster had destroyed it and killed the others...

The story is collected in The Best of Fritz Leiber, Constellations, and Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010).

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E-bog: 10. februar 2017