Anonymous 1 hr 1 min read

'Halt, answer, or I shoot!' A midnight intruder, no thief and no murderer, brings Captain Mors word that sets the world-ship on a journey of terror.

This 1909 German dime-novel from the anonymous 'Der Luftpirat' series opens on a tense nocturnal encounter before launching the masked sky-pirate into interplanetary dread. Breathless early space opera. Read it for a prophetic pulp serial whose magnet-driven craft carried adventure into the terrifying dark of space.

In its time

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

Reading it

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