Across the Zodiac (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Science Fiction NovelBy Percy Greg
Length18h 15m
About this audiobook
Percy Greg's Across the Zodiac (1880) is a landmark of Victorian scientific romance, imagining a voyage to Mars by means of "apergy," a fictional anti-gravitational force, aboard a craft significantly named the Astronaut. Blending pseudo-scientific exposition, travel narrative, philosophical dialogue, and social satire, the novel anticipates later science fiction while remaining rooted in nineteenth-century debates about progress, empire, gender, and political order. Its Martian civilization is rendered with unusual ethnographic ambition, including invented language, customs, domestic arrangements, and institutions. Greg (1836–1889), an English journalist, historian, and political thinker, brought to fiction the habits of a polemicist and social analyst. The son of the essayist William Rathbone Greg, he moved within the intellectual world of Victorian liberalism and conservatism, yet often wrote against fashionable orthodoxies. His interests in science, governance, religion, and comparative civilization help explain the book's mixture of technical speculation and ideological argument. Across the Zodiac is recommended to readers interested in the deep origins of science fiction, especially those who value speculative literature as a vehicle for cultural critique. Though its attitudes are unmistakably Victorian, its imaginative daring and historical importance remain compelling.
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Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (11)
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GenreScience Fiction
Length18 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 13, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1From the Earth to the Moon + Around the Moon: 2 Unabridged Science Fiction Classics (Annotated)
2CHAPTER I - SHIPWRECK
3CHAPTER II - OUTWARD BOUND
4CHAPTER III - THE UNTRAVELLED DEEP
5CHAPTER IV - A NEW WORLD
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6CHAPTER V - LANGUAGE, LAWS, AND LIFE
7CHAPTER VI - AN OFFICIAL VISIT
8CHAPTER VII - ESCORT DUTY
9CHAPTER VIII - A FAITH AND ITS FOUNDER
10CHAPTER IX - MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
11CHAPTER X - WOMAN AND WEDLOCK
12CHAPTER XI - A COUNTRY DRIVE
13CHAPTER XII - ON THE RIVER
14CHAPTER XIII - THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT
15CHAPTER XIV - BY SEA
16CHAPTER XV - FUR-HUNTING
17CHAPTER XVI - TROUBLED WATERS
18CHAPTER XVII - PRESENTED AT COURT
19CHAPTER XVIII - A PRINCE'S PRESENT
20CHAPTER XIX - A COMPLETE ESTABLISHMENT
21CHAPTER XX - LIFE, SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC
22CHAPTER XXI - PRIVATE AUDIENCES
23CHAPTER XXII - PECULIAR INSTITUTIONS
24CHAPTER XXIII - CHARACTERISTICS
25CHAPTER XXIV - WINTER
26CHAPTER XXV - APOSTACY
27CHAPTER XXVI - TWILIGHT
28CHAPTER XXVII - THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
29CHAPTER XXVIII - DARKER YET
30CHAPTER XXIX - AZRAEL
31CHAPTER XXX - FAREWELL!
32Memorable Quotes
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