Percy Greg

Percy Greg

Percy Greg (1836, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - 24 December 1889, Chelsea), son of William Rathbone Greg, was an English writer.

Percy Greg, like his father, wrote about politics, but his views were violently reactionary: his "History of the United States to the Reconstruction of the Union" (1887) can be said to be more of a polemic, rather than a history.

His "Across The Zodiac" (1880) is an early science fiction novel, said to be the progenitor of the sword-and-planet genre.

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