A thousand colonists were headed for Mars but they didn't make it. They crash landed on this moon of Jupiter’s. They were trying to contact the earth, trying to survive. Evil creatures from the land of darkness on the other side of the moon are coming for his daughter. Will he save her from a fate worse than death with his huge part-human war-machine? That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.I’m your host, Scott Miller, sci-fi fanatic and audiobook narrator and I want to thank you for your support. Every story you hear, and many more, are available on our website, lostscifi.com. Lost Sci-Fi Books 1 through 40, that’s 40 lost Sci-Fi short stories, more than 20 and a half hours, only available on our website and for only $14.97. But as a Lost Sci-Fi podcast listener you get it for a limited time for only $9.88. Go to lostscifi.com, enter promo code “podcast” to get this special price exclusively for Lost Sci-Fi listeners.The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast has been around for a little more than a month and we are blown away by the response from you and others around the world. We’re already in the top 50 science fiction podcasts in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and France and we’re in the top 150 in The UK and The US. Thank you for making that happen.Today on the podcast our first story from the 1940s. More than eight decades ago Richard O. Lewis wrote Zurk. As is often the case we know very little about Lewis other than the fact that he wrote the story you’ll hear today and 20 others from 1939 to 1967.If you bought the 132 page Winter 1941 edition of Planet Stories Magazine, released about a month before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when it first came out you would have paid only 20 cents. You can buy it now on eBay for $150.Gentle Marene was next when the black space cruiser called for its youth-levy. If only Zurk would spark to life—Zurk, this huge, part-human war-machine of tubular steel muscles and blank, mechanical mind.From Planet Stories Magazine in November, 1941, Zurk by Richard O. LewisSupport the show