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Captain Mors and the crew of the Meteor are bound for Saturn, hoping to unlock the mystery of its rings. But their voyage into the outer reaches of the solar system soon takes a disastrous turn.
Driven from their course, the spacefarers fall within the immense gravitational grip of Jupiter. The Meteor is dragged helplessly toward the giant planet, plunging through its turbulent atmosphere before crashing into a raging alien sea.
They survive—but escape may be impossible.
Stranded on a vast, primordial world, Mors and his companions find themselves amid violent storms, strange landscapes, immense geysers, and a planet seemingly still in the throes of its formation. Worse, the same mysterious forces that pulled the Meteor down now threaten to hold it there forever. As fear and superstition spread among the crew, Captain Mors must pit his ingenuity—and his extraordinary spaceship—against the power of Jupiter itself.
First published as part of the pioneering German science-fiction adventure series Der Luftpirat und sein lenkbares Luftschiff, Stranded on Jupiter is a remarkable early tale of interplanetary exploration: a fast-moving mixture of speculative science, planetary romance, natural catastrophe, and pulp adventure written decades before space travel became reality.
This Gradient Books edition presents the story for modern English-language readers in a new complete translation.
