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A Pail of Air
Fritz Leiber
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The dark star passed, bringing with it eternal night and turning history into incredible myth in a single generation!
The dark star passed, bringing with it eternal night and turning history into incredible myth in a single generation!
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Let me tell you about the Nest. It's low and snug, just room for the four of us and our things. The floor is covered with thick woolly rugs. Three of the sides are blankets, and the blankets roofing it touch Pa's head. He tells me it's inside a much bigger room, but I've never seen the real walls or ceiling.
Against one of the blanket-walls is a big set of shelves, with tools and books and other stuff, and on top of it a whole row of clocks. Pa's very fussy about keeping them wound. He says we must never forget time, and without a sun or moon, that would be easy to do.
The fourth wall has blankets all over except around the fireplace, in which there is a fire that must never go out. It keeps us from freezin. . . Read More
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This is a wonderful short story about survival in the face of cosmic cataclysm. The setting is super neat and deserves to be a full-on novel. This story is good for getting a better understanding of what our atmosphere really is and dispelling some common tropes about living in the vacuum of space.
Um Balde de Ar
25pp
O título me pegou, não nego. Por isso parei para ler mesmo conhecendo pouco do Leiber. Nunca tinha lido nada dele e só o conhecia por meio de citações sobre a importância dele nos tropos de fantasia e por ter batizado o gênero Sword & Sorcery. Não sabia que ele também escrevia ficç
Dated sci-fi. It can either be charming or cringe-worthy. Most of this is unfortunately the latter. Although there are a few gems in here too. Probably the best is the opening and title story, A Pail of Air. Much more timeless than the others, and much more engaging. As a short story, I would rate i
3.4 ⭐
Classic end-of-the-world short story, with an optimistic twist which is not always the case with Leiber. Included in Robert Silverberg's so-so anthology " This Way to the End Times."
I really liked this depiction of what might happen if the Earth was snatched away from the Sun, though I think Leiber's take on things is maybe a bit optimistic. The man's imagination is truly incredible! An enjoyable read!