Anonymous 1 hr 6 min read

By night over the South Seas, Captain Mors's magnet-driven world-ship Meteor tears free of the Earth and races toward the death-crater of a new planet.

This 1909 German dime-novel from the anonymous 'Der Luftpirat' series carries the masked sky-pirate into interplanetary peril. Breathless, imaginative early space opera. Read it for a prophetic pulp serial whose airship-turned-spaceship anticipated the genre by decades.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 6 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).