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Publication date
  
1880

Originally published
  
1880

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Country
  
United Kingdom


Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Author
  
Publisher
  
Routledge

Editor
  
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Pages
  
Vol. 1: 302 pp.Vol. 2: 294 pp.

Similar
  
A Journey in Other Worlds, Lieut Gullivar Jones: Hi, A Plunge into Space, Journey to Mars the Wonderfu, Les Navigateurs de l'infini

Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record (1880) is a science fiction novel by Percy Greg, who has been credited as an originator of the sword and planet subgenre of science fiction.

Contents

Plot

The book details the creation and use of apergy, a form of anti-gravitational energy, and details a flight to Mars in 1830. 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 is an unusually tall Martian from some remote place on their planet.)

The book's narrator names his spacecraft the Astronaut.

Alien language

The book contains what was probably the first alien language in any work of fiction.

Influence

The same title was used for a later, similar book—Across the Zodiac: A Story of Adventure (1896) by Edwin Pallander (1869–1952) (the pseudonym of UK biologist, botanist and author Lancelot Francis Sanderson Bayly). Pallander copied some elements of Greg's plot; in his book, gravity is negated by a gyroscope.

References

Across the Zodiac Wikipedia


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