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 ...
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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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Fine no dust jacket as issued. (111504) Mass market paperback is in Fine+ condition, with shadow crease top right corner. First printing. 384 p.; Abridged from original science fiction novel by Percy Greg, with afterword by Appel.
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