Trying to locate an old SF story - please help!
Universe Man
or so). It was about these people who live on a planet where the sun
is so harsh that they only live for about a week. During the day, they
live in caves. They grow to adulthood within a few days and live
entire lives in their short time. Everything else on the planet is
born at dusk and dies at dawn, I think. The story focuses on one
character and his family and his conflicts. I'd give anything to know
what the name of this story is so I can read it again. If you've read
it, please post a reply. Thanks in advance.
Ryan
Stephen Wolfenden
The story is Ray Bradbury's "Frost and Fire". It's collected in "The Stories
of Ray Bradbury Volume 2", which may still be available. I'm not sure from
which collection it originally hails, but that is definitely the story
you're after: people born in caves, maturing very fast, hot in the day, cold
at night, etc...
"Universe Man" <ry...@naples.net> wrote in message
news:39cc182a.1442778@news-server...
Ogden Johnson III
wrote:
>You've found the right newsgroup!
Which group was it? He asked this in:
alt.books.isaac-asimov
alt.books.arthur-clarke
alt.books.ray-bradbury
alt.books.sf.robert-heinlein
>The story is Ray Bradbury's "Frost and Fire". It's collected in "The Stories
>of Ray Bradbury Volume 2", which may still be available. I'm not sure from
>which collection it originally hails, but that is definitely the story
>you're after: people born in caves, maturing very fast, hot in the day, cold
>at night, etc...
I remembered, vaguely, the story - read it a long, *long* time ago and
never reread it. Glad you could help him.
>"Universe Man" <ry...@naples.net> wrote in message
>news:39cc182a.1442778@news-server...
>> A few years ago, I read a short science fiction story (about 80 pages
>> or so). It was about these people who live on a planet where the sun
Just for future reference [although you did pick some good groups to
ask in - most in these groups tend to be widely read in the SF field],
one of the best groups to ask questions like this is
rec.arts.sf.written. Sure, there are that 10% there, too, that will
give a question like yours a ration of <ordure>, but that group has
never failed me in tracking down a half-remembered story from three or
four decades ago.
OJ III
The Watcher
Sean Malloy wrote in message >It was by Ray Bradbury, and I read it in,
IIRC, _S is for Space_
>(either that or _R is for Rocket_). Looking at the titles of the
>stories in the two books, I _think_ that the title is "Time in thy
>Flight" from the former.
Close but no cigar. The story is "Frost and Fire" and is in R Is For
Rocket. It was also adapted to a DC Graphic Novel some years ago.
.
Alberto Gallina
Eef Hartman
: "Universe Man" <ry...@naples.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
: news:39cc182a.1442778@news-server...
:> A few years ago, I read a short science fiction story (about 80 pages
This is a short story by Ray Bradbury, which _I think_ was called "Fire
and Frost". It is as far as I remember in the collection "R is for Rocket".
The story takes place on Mercury, or something like it.
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