For ages Mankind labelled Mercury a dead world—a red-hot, seething outpost of hell. Too late Rawley learned of the hideous life that molten, steaming planet spawned! The Mercurian by Frank Belknap Long. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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Frank Belknap Long returns to the podcast today with a space faring tale tale sure to rev up your engines. Today’s story appeared in the Winter 1941 issue of Planet Stories magazine on page 69, The Mercurian by Frank Belknap Long…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, When a driven man arrives at a cemetery world, what else can it be but journey's end—and the start of a new one? Dead Man’s Planet by William Morrison.

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