Frost and Fire (short story)

"Frost and Fire" (as "The Creatures That Time Forgot") was cover-featured on the Fall 1946 issue of Planet Stories.

"Frost and Fire" is a short story by Ray Bradbury and the fourteenth in his collection R is for Rocket. It was first published in Planet Stories (Fall, 1946) as "The Creatures That Time Forgot". The story is about short-lived humans on a planet similar to Mercury.[1]

  1. ^ Williams, Matt (August 4, 2016). "How do we colonize Mercury?". phys.org. Science X Network. Archived from the original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2020. The conditions on this world allude to Mercury, where the days are extremely hot, the nights extremely cold, and humans live for only eight days.