Richard O. Lewis 27 min read

Year after year the steel giant Zurk has sat staring through a laboratory window on Jupiter-facing moonlight, until the desperate Guyard pleads with the man of steel: 'Zurk, you must save Marene!'

Richard O. Lewis's 1941 story is an atmospheric AI-and-space-opera tale. Vivid, poignant golden-age pulp. Read it for a moody pulp yarn of a mighty robot and the anguished scientist who begs it to save the woman he loves, set on a lonely Jovian moon, in the wonder-and-pathos style of the classic space-adventure magazines.

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In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

27 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Leo Morey