Anonymous 1 hr 1 min read

The masked Captain Mors and his steerable airship, master of the skies, launch one of the earliest great space-opera serials, the opening number.

This 1908 German dime-novel, first of the anonymous 'Der Luftpirat' series, follows the enigmatic sky-pirate Captain Mors in his magnet-driven vessel Meteor, a pioneering forerunner of pulp space opera. Wild, prophetic scientific romance. Read it for the very start of a landmark early series that carried adventure from the air into space.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 1 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).