Here are a couple stories that relate to your last paragraph. Dead in Irons by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro[0] Survival by John Wyndham[1] [0] http://www.isfdb.org/c

Here are a couple stories that relate to your last paragraph. Dead in Irons by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro[0] Survival by John Wyndham[1] [0] http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56991 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56991 [1] http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1952feb-00102 http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1952feb-00102