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The story follows an aging inventor who has spent years training a huge part-human war-machine, Zurk, to defend his lunar settlement against periodic raids by light-averse invaders who claim young people as tribute. With a youth-levy approaching and Zurk inert, the inventor struggles between hope and despair as his daughter prepares for the capture. The occupiers publicly brutalize dissent, killing a would-be radio messenger and displaying their leader Zuldi, which prompts clandestine resistance efforts and secret caches of firearms. The daughter pleads for restraint and tries to awaken the machine through familiar gestures and thought, and just as a faint response seems possible, the invaders intrude and seize her, leaving the community's fate unresolved.
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