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Captain Mors has set his sights on the Moon when Professor van Halen’s instruments reveal something extraordinary: a tiny, undiscovered planet hurtling through space near the Earth. Aboard the Meteor, Mors and his companions alter course to investigate.
What begins as a voyage of scientific discovery quickly becomes a fight for survival. A violent volcanic eruption cripples the Meteor and sends the spaceship crashing onto the strange new world, its stern lodged in the crater of an apparently extinct volcano. Repairs must be made before the crew can escape—but the planet proves anything but lifeless.
Across its primeval landscape roam monstrous creatures resembling the great reptiles of Earth’s prehistoric past. And beneath the stranded Meteor, the dormant crater is beginning to awaken. As molten lava rises toward the helpless ship, Captain Mors must find a way to save his crew before the death crater claims them all.
First published as part of the pioneering German science-fiction adventure series Der Luftpirat und sein lenkbares Luftschiff, The Death Crater combines space travel, speculative science, lost-world adventure, prehistoric monsters, and breathless pulp action in a remarkable vision of interplanetary adventure from the early twentieth century.
This Gradient Books edition presents the story for modern English-language readers in a new complete translation.
