Percy Greg war ein englischer Schriftsteller, der sich in seinen Werken mit politischen Themen aus einer entschieden reaktionären Sichtweise auseinandersetzte. Seine "History of the United States to the Reconstruction of the Union" fungiert eher als Polemik denn als historische Abhandlung. Darüber hinaus verfasste Greg einen frühen Science-Fiction-Roman, "Across The Zodiac", der als Vorläufer des Sword-and-Planet-Genres gilt. Sein Schreiben bietet somit eine einzigartige Mischung aus scharfer politischer Kritik und grundlegender spekulativer Fiktion.
Focusing on accessibility, this book is a reproduction of a historical work presented in large print, catering specifically to individuals with impaired vision. The publishing house Megali is dedicated to making such texts more readable, emphasizing their commitment to inclusivity in literature.
Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record 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. The book details the creation and use of apergy, a form of anti-gravitational energy, and details a flight to Mars. The planet is inhabited by diminutive beings; they are convinced that life does not exist elsewhere than on their world, and refuse to believe that the unnamed narrator is actually from Earth. (They think he's an unusually tall Martian from some remote place on their planet.) The book's narrator names his spacecraft the "Astronaut." The book contains what was probably the first alien language in any work of fiction.