
A sleek luxury liner glides through the silent void between Earth and Mars, its passengers—scholars, socialites, and a suspiciously calm interplanetary patrol officer—unaware that a notorious phantom pirate may already be stalking their route. Jim Fanning, posing as a civilian, watches the beautiful but uneasy Brenda Carson, sensing that something about her reaction to a nearby asteroid hints at deeper danger. The ship’s atmosphere hums with casual conversation, yet an undercurrent of dread builds as rumors of vanished vessels surface.
When the charismatic astronomer Arthur Jerome mentions the elusive “Phantom bandit,” the crew’s curiosity turns to alarm, and the mystery of a series of unexplained space‑liner disappearances looms larger. As the Seven Stars sails closer to its Martian destination, the thin line between routine travel and hidden peril begins to blur, promising a tense chase through the star‑strewn corridors of the future. Listeners will be drawn into a classic blend of sci‑fi adventure and suspense, all set against the glittering backdrop of interplanetary travel.
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (80K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2020-04-17
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1887–1957
A prolific early science-fiction writer, he helped shape the pulp era with fast-moving adventures and imaginative ideas about time, space, and strange new worlds. He is especially remembered for stories like The Girl in the Golden Atom, which brought big cosmic wonder to magazine readers.
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