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Action packed, early science fiction filled with romance, political intrigue and astounding prescience! This classic novel by Percy Gregg recounts a tale of manned flight to Mars in the year 1830. The unnamed hero has just invented a propulsion engine using apergy —a mysterious source of energy. Since childhood his one ambition has been to explore the vastness of space, his life-long obsession —to visit distant planets. What exotic and wondrous treasures might those worlds hold? And will their inhabitants be anything like us? He resolves to create a spacecraft and visit the closest of the planets, Mars. When he arrives, he not only discovers that there is indeed life on The Red Planet, but that it is terrifyingly familiar. . . Across the Zodiac is a seminal spaceship novel —it may, in fact, be the tale that spawned every future novel involving spaceships.
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Percy Greg (1836-1889) was an English writer. Like his father Greg wrote about politics, but his views were violently reactionary. His Across the Zodiac (1880) is an early science fiction novel, said to be the progenitor of the sword-and-planet genre. In 2010 a crater on Mars was named Greg in recognition of his contribution to the lore of Mars.
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- EditoreCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Data di pubblicazione2015
- ISBN 10 1508808163
- ISBN 13 9781508808169
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine612
- Valutazione libreria
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