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A weapon capable of destroying the Earth lies somewhere in the rings of Saturn—and Captain Mors is not the only man who knows it.
When a French engineer uncovers evidence that a band of ruthless conspirators has constructed three spaceships modeled on Captain Mors’s extraordinary Meteor, he sends a desperate warning. Their purpose is not exploration. They intend to reach Saturn, seize a mysterious substance of almost unimaginable destructive power, and return with a weapon that could make them masters of the Earth.
Mors has only one chance: reach them before they reach Saturn.
Aboard the Meteor, he launches into a headlong pursuit across the solar system. The chase carries him through the asteroid belt and into battles unlike anything fought on Earth, as rival spaceships exchange fire, attempt deadly ramming attacks, and maneuver among strange and hostile worlds.
But the closer Mors comes to Saturn, the greater the dangers become. On one of the giant planet’s mysterious moons, the Meteor encounters a primordial substance with the power to drag entire ships beneath its surface—and Captain Mors and his crew may share the fate of the enemies they have pursued across space.
First published as part of the pioneering German science-fiction series Der Luftpirat und sein lenkbares Luftschiff, The Voyage of Terror is a remarkably early tale of interplanetary pursuit and space combat, combining speculative science, planetary adventure, and breathless pulp storytelling decades before such themes became staples of science fiction.
This Gradient Books edition presents the story for modern English-language readers in a new complete translation.
