Across the Zodiac, (Hardcover)

<p>THE BOOK THAT INVENTED THE WORD "ASTRONAUT" <br>Before Burroughs sent John Carter to Mars. Before Wells imagined Martian invaders. In 1880, Percy Greg launched the first spacecraft to the Red Planet--inventing an entire genre, a constructed alien language, and even the word "astronaut" in a single, groundbreaking novel the world forgot.<br>Now, renowned graphic novelist Giorgio Pontrelli reimagines this lost masterwork for a new generation.<br>Across the Zodiac follows an unnamed Englishman who builds a spacecraft called the Astronaut and launches himself alone across space, driven by curiosity and intellectual ambition. On Mars, he discovers a technologically advanced but deeply unsettling civilization--governed by authoritarian technocrats who deny the existence of life beyond their own world.<br>Outwardly rational and orderly, Martian society conceals something darker.<br>The traveler observes practices of chilling moral coldness--including the euthanasia of children deemed imperfect in the name of social efficiency and genetic purity. He learns the Martian language--one of the earliest constructed alien languages in all of fiction--and becomes entangled in the planet's political and philosophical tensions. He forms deep relationships, including a cross-species romance, and encounters the Children of Light, a mystical order quietly resisting the dominant regime.<br>Blending adventure, satire, and philosophical inquiry, Greg used Mars to reflect Victorian anxieties about industry, governance, gender, and scientific progress--decades before anyone else dared.<br>Now Pontrelli's bold, cinematic artwork brings that vision explosively to life.<br>Through dynamic visual storytelling and modern science fiction sensibilities, this graphic novel adaptation captures both the wonder and the unease of Greg's original--honoring its place as one of the genre's earliest and most daring interplanetary epics.<br>The origin of science fiction has finally been reimagined.<br>A collectible edition featuring sprayed edges and meticulously designed premium packaging. Not just a novel--a work of art meant to be held, displayed, and remembered.</p>

• Across the Zodiac, (Hardcover)
• Author: Gungnir
• ISBN: 9781962594387
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-03-16
• Page Count: 104