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3 unusual facts about Across the Zodiac


Across the Zodiac

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 sub-genre of science fiction.

Curiously, 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).

The Great Romance

In these aspects, the book reflects the likely influence of Percy Greg's 1880 novel Across the Zodiac.


Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century

Blair's work is one of a group of early science fiction novels that are now little known, but were influential in their own time — a group that includes Edward Maitland's By and By (1873), Percy Greg's Across the Zodiac (1880), and John Jacob Astor IV's A Journey in Other Worlds (1894).


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