THE ATHENAEUMAcross the ZodiacPercy Greg
Speculative
Across the Zodiac
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA traveller builds a ship driven by “apergy”, a force that pushes against gravity, and flies to Mars, where he finds an orderly, rather joyless society and a great deal of bureaucracy. Percy Greg’s novel of 1880 is one of the first stories of a voyage to Mars. His ship was called the Astronaut, perhaps the first use of the word.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 11 hours
- Where to find it
- The Reading Room of Helium, on Mars
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #10165. In the public domain in the United States.