在一座阴暗的公寓楼内,被一层层悬挂的地毯隔离起来,地球上仅存的最后一个家族围着火堆蜷缩在一起,融化着一罐冰冻的氧气。地球被一颗无赖的暗星偷走了太阳的温暖,被放逐到太阳系寒冷的外边缘。这个惟一幸存下来的家族必须冒险到外面无尽的黑夜里,去获取像积雪一样堆积起来的冷冻的大气层气体……随着人类终结的剧情发展下去,作家弗里茨·莱贝尔(Fritz Leiber)1951年的科幻短篇小说《一桶 In a gloomy apartment block, separated by layers of rugs, the last remaining family on earth curled up around a fire, melting a can of frozen oxygen. The Earth was stolen by a rogue dark star, the warmth of the sun, exiled to the frigid outer edge of the solar system. The only surviving family must venture out into the darkness outside to capture the frozen atmospheric gas that piled up like snow ... As the story of the end of mankind progressed, writer Fritz Leiber 1951 science fiction short story "a barrel