A Pail of AirFritz Leiber
A Pail of Air
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Original author: Fritz Leiber
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"A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber is a science fiction short story published in 1951. Earth has been torn from the Sun by a dark star, freezing the atmosphere solid. A ten-year-old boy narrates his family's survival in a makeshift shelter, where they gather pails of frozen oxygen to breathe. They maintain a small fire for warmth in a world plunged into absolute darkness and cold, waiting alone on a dead planet.
A Pail of Air, by Fritz Leiber. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #51461.
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