Anonymous 1 hr 3 min read

The magnet-driven Meteor flies out of Earth's atmosphere into the void, bound for a giant planet, as Captain Mors turns world-voyager once more.

This 1909 German dime-novel from the anonymous 'Der Luftpirat' series sends the masked sky-pirate across space to a colossal world of unsolved riddles. Vivid, prophetic early space opera. Read it for a landmark pulp serial that reached the outer planets decades before the genre had a name.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 3 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).