"Frost and Fire" was adapted as a graphic novel. Sim, motivated by his dwindling days, makes it his goal to extend his life and reach the distant rocket, despite the protests of his sister and other cave-dwellers. Sim is then moved by the memory of his ancestors to find and meet with scientists who make halting progress towards the goal of lengthening the world's decreased life span. However, they do not attempt to reach the sole remaining rocket ship due to the futility of attempting to reach it in one hour, which is the longest length of time between day and night (both deadly). The people of this planet are also gifted with racial memory (they remember their ancestors' memories). The plot follows Sim, the protagonist of this story, and his apparently short life on a planet where people are cursed by radiation to live only eight days. Placed there by a past rocket ship that crashed, the people of the storied land are within sight of another rocket ship on a distant mountain plateau. The story is about short-lived humans on a planet similar to Mercury. It was first published in Planet Stories (Fall, 1946) as "The Creatures That Time Forgot". " Frost and Fire" is a short story by Ray Bradbury and the fourteenth in his collection R is for Rocket.
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