Across the Zodiac
Trübner & Co | |
Publication date | 1880 |
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| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | Vol. 1: 302 pp. Vol. 2: 294 pp. |
Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record (
Plot
The book details the creation and use of
The book's narrator names his spacecraft the Astronaut.
Novel concepts
The book contains what was probably the first alien language in any work of fiction.[2] His space ship design also featured a small garden, an early prediction of hydroponics.[3]: 69
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.[4]
See also
References
- Everett Bleiler, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature, Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1948; p. 132.
- ^ Ekman, F: "The Martial Language of Percy Greg", Invented Languages Summer 2008, p. 11. Richard K. Harrison Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, 2008
- ISBN 978-0-517-53174-7.
- ^ Jess Nevins, The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, Austin, TX, Monkeybrain Books, 2005.
External links
- Across the Zodiac at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
- Across the Zodiac at Project Gutenberg
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