Percy Greg
Template:Use dmy dates Template:EngvarB Percy Greg (7 January 1836 Bury – 24 December 1889, Chelsea), son of William Rathbone Greg, was an English writer.<ref name=Butterworth>Template:Cite book</ref>
His Across the Zodiac (1880) is an early science fiction novel, said to be the progenitor of the sword-and-planet genre. For that novel, Greg created what may have been the first artistic language that was described with linguistic and grammatical terminology.<ref name=ekman1>Ekman, F: "The Martial Language of Percy Greg", Invented Languages Summer 2008, p. 11. Template:Usurped, 2008</ref> It also contained what is possibly the first instance in the English language of the word "astronaut".Template:Or?
In 2010,a crater on Mars was named Greg<ref name=usgs2>Greg Crater data from the International Astronomical Union</ref> in recognition of his contribution to the lore of Mars.<ref name=usgs1>Blue, Jennifer, "Six New Names Approved for Features on Mars" 21 June 2010</ref>
Percy Greg used the pseudonym 'Lionel H. Holdreth' when writing for George Jacob Holyoake's freethinking periodical, The Reasoner, in the 1850s, and he edited the paper for a while in 1859 when Holyoake was ill.<ref>Obituary in Manchester Guardian, 30 December 1889; see also more generally, Edward Royle, Victorian Infidels (Manchester UP 1974), p. 311 and passim.</ref>Template:Short description
BibliographyEdit
- Across the Zodiac (1880)
- History of the United States to the Reconstruction of the Union (1887)