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Victorian Science FictionClassic Fantasy

A Pail of Air

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    Fritz Leiber's A Pail of Air is a Victorian science fiction and classic fantasy story collection. Readers will find themes of survival and families.

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    About A Pail of Air

    "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.
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    Themes, setting & tropes

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    • Science fiction
    • Survival
    • Families

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    Who wrote A Pail of Air?

    A Pail of Air was written by Fritz Leiber.

    What genre is A Pail of Air?

    It is usually shelved as Victorian Science Fiction and Classic Fantasy.

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    Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

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