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Percy Greg Across the Zodiac

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Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record is a science fiction novel by Percy Greg, who has been credited as an originator of the Sword and planet sub-genre of science fiction. The book details the creation and use of apergy, a form of anti-gravitational energy, and details a flight to Mars. The planet is inhabited by diminutive beings; they are convinced that life does not exist elsewhere than on their world, and refuse to believe that the unnamed narrator is actually from Earth. (They think he's an unusually tall Martian from some remote place on their planet.) The book's narrator names his spacecraft the "Astronaut." The book contains what was probably the first alien language in any work of fiction. [more]

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Percy Greg Across the Zodiac

The Story of a Wrecked Record

Science Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record (1880) is a science fiction novel by Percy Greg, [more]

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Percy Greg Across The Zodiac

Fiction
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Percy Greg (7 January 1836 Stand, Prestwich, near Manchester - 24 December 1889, Chelsea[citation needed]), son of William Rathbone Greg, was an English writer. Percy Greg, like his father, wrote about politics, but his views were violently reactionary: his History of the United States to the Reconstruction of the Union (1887) can be said to be more of a polemic, rather than a history. His Across the Zodiac (1880) is an early science fiction novel, said to be the progenitor of the sword-and-planet genre. For that novel, Greg created what may have been the first artistic language that was described with linguistic and grammatical terminology.[1] It also contained what is possibly the first instance in the English language of the word "Astronaut". In 2010 a crater on Mars was named Greg[2] in recognition of his contribution to the lore of Mars.[3] [more]

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Percy Greg Across The Zodiac

Biography & Autobiography
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Once Only, In The Occasional Travelling Of Thirty Years, Did I Lose Any Important Article Of Luggage; And That Loss Occurred, Not Under The Haphazard, Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Confusion Of English, Or The Elaborate Misrule Of Continental Journeys, But Through The Absolute Perfection And Democratic Despotism Of The American System. I Had To Give Up A Visit To The Scenery Of Cooper's Best Indian Novels--No Slight Sacrifice--And Hasten At Once To New York To Repair The Loss. [more]

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Percy Greg Across the Zodiac

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Percy Greg (7 January 1836 Bury - 24 December 1889, Chelsea), son of William Rathbone Greg, was an [more]

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