"'At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens.'"
-HG Wells, The Time Machine (London, 1973), 14, p. 93.
"Saunders saw part of the sun's huge blood-red disc shining wanly.
"So good-bye, Sol, he thought. Good-bye, and thank you for many million years of warmth and light. Sleep well, old friend."
-"Flight to Forever," p. 235.
Plunged into darkness by an eclipse, the Time Traveller flees back to his present:
"'So I came back.'" (15, p. 95)
Saunders has no alternative but to continue forward into "...the elemental dark." (ibid.)
"The universe was dead!" (ibid.)
A good place to close for the night. It is dark outside.
See also Good-byes
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