A Pail of Air by 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
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| Author | Leiber, Fritz, 1910-1992 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Emshwiller, Ed, 1925-1990 |
| Title | A Pail of Air |
| Series Title | Produced from Galaxy Science Fiction December 1951 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Survival -- Fiction |
| Subject | Families -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 51461 |
| Release Date | Mar 15, 2016 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1036 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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