Across the zodiac: the story of a wrecked record.
Centering around the creation of a substance called 'apergy', a form of anti-gravitational energy, Percy Gregg's novel details a flight to Mars taken in 1830. They discover the planet to be inhabited by diminutive beings who, convinced that life couldn't exist any where else apar...
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn.,
Hyperion Press
[1974]
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| Series: | Classics of science fiction
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| Summary: | Centering around the creation of a substance called 'apergy', a form of anti-gravitational energy, Percy Gregg's novel details a flight to Mars taken in 1830. They discover the planet to be inhabited by diminutive beings who, convinced that life couldn't exist any where else apart from on their world, refuse to believe that the unnamed narrator is actually from Earth - deciding instead he is an unusually tall Martian from some remote corner of their planet. |
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| Item Description: | Reprint of the 1880 ed. published by Trübner, London. |
| Physical Description: | 296, 288 pages 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 088355125X 9780883551257 0883551543 9780883551547 |