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A mutiny in space—and one wrong move could leave the Meteor stranded forever between worlds.
When a hostile submarine is wrecked on the shores of Captain Mors's secret island, the masked air pirate does not take revenge on its surviving crew. Instead, he rescues them. Eight of the sailors—experienced mechanics and engineers—swear loyalty to Mors and are offered a place aboard his extraordinary spacecraft, the Meteor.
At first, the newcomers can scarcely believe what they have joined. The Meteor is no ordinary airship: it can leave the atmosphere behind, circle the Earth through space, and voyage toward the Moon. For men accustomed to the machinery of a submarine, it is a glimpse of a technological future beyond anything they have imagined.
But not every oath is made in good faith.
As the Meteor races away from Earth, two of the new crewmen begin plotting to seize the vessel for themselves. Soon Captain Mors and his loyal companions are locked out of their own machinery while the mutineers struggle with forces they do not understand—and steer the ship toward a deadly region where the gravitational pull of Earth and Moon hangs in balance.
First published as the fortieth installment of the pioneering German science-fiction serial Der Luftpirat und sein lenkbares Luftschiff, The Mutiny Aboard the Meteor (Die Empörung im Weltenfahrzeug) combines mutiny, mechanical peril, and interplanetary adventure in a story published years before space travel became one of the defining dreams of science fiction.
This Gradient Books edition brings another remarkable Captain Mors adventure to modern English-language readers.
