Anonymous 1 hr read

A capital city erupts in revolt beneath a great red fire-star, as Captain Mors's Meteor threads a course between giant comets.

This 1909 German dime-novel from the anonymous 'Der Luftpirat' series pairs earthly upheaval with cosmic spectacle as the masked sky-pirate voyages among the comets. Vivid, prophetic early space opera. Read it for a landmark pulp serial that filled the heavens with menace decades ahead of its time.

In its time

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

Reading it

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