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  • A Journey in Other Worlds

    Illustrated

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    The book offers a fictional account of life in the year 2000. It contains abundant speculation about technological invention, including descriptions of a worldwide telephone network, solar power, air travel, space travel to the planets Saturn and Jupiter, and terraforming engineering projects — damming the Arctic Ocean, and adjusting the Earth's axial tilt by the Terrestrial Axis Straightening ... Read more

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  • A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    The story is set in the late 20th century and follows a group of adventurers who embark on a journey to explore the planets of our solar system. They use a spaceship powered by a new invention called "aeriolite," which allows for interplanetary travel. The group visits several planets, including Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, and encounters various forms of extraterrestrial life.Each planet they ... Read more

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  • A Journey in Other Worlds

    A Romance of the Future

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    Series series Science Fiction
    Complete and unabridged, with 50 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Paulus Klee and Carl Bille. A voyage to Jupiter and Saturn in the year 2000, with the earth's axis straightened out by engineering and the spirits of the dead waiting on the further planet. Astor wrote it in 1894; he built the Astoria hotel, invented a bicycle brake and a turbine engine, and went down with the Titanic. This edition ... Read more

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  • A Journey in Other Worlds

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    A stunning trip across the galaxy and into the futureFocusing on Richard Ayrault, a stockholder of the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company, A Journey in Other Worlds takes readers across the solar system to Jupiter and Saturn. On Jupiter, Astor creates a fantastically outsize world of gushing volcanoes, crashing waterfalls, and otherworldly flora and fauna. In contrast, his Saturn is an ... Read more

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  • A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    According to Wikipedia: "John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic." ... Read more

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  • A Journey to Other Worlds (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Interplanetary adventures with antigravity tech, alien wildlife, and spiritual foresight on a futuristic voyage to the year 2000

    by John Jacob Astor, Isabella Murray, Isabella Murray ...
    A Journey to Other Worlds, a late–nineteenth-century scientific romance set in the year 2000, imagines a United States governed by technocrats who straighten Earth's axis and harvest boundless energy before launching an apergy-propelled craft, the Callisto, to Jupiter and Saturn. Astor alternates engineering exposition with travelogue: prehistoric megafauna and steamy swamps on Jupiter, ... Read more

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  • Journey In Other Worlds, A

    A Romance of the Future

    by John Jacob Astor IV ...
    A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future was written by John Jacob Astor IV, who perished aboard the Titanic in April 1912. Published in 1894, A Journey in Other Worlds is a fictional account of life in the year 2000, speculating about such outlandish things as solar power, space travel, and a worldwide telephone network. Seeking other habitable planets, the spaceship Callisto embarks on ... Read more

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  • A Journey in Other Worlds A Romance of the Future

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    "A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future" by John Jacob Astor is a visionary science fiction novel that transports readers to distant realms and speculative futures. In this groundbreaking work, Astor explores the possibilities of interplanetary travel and the colonization of other worlds. Set in the 21st century, the novel follows a group of adventurous explorers as they embark on a ... Read more

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  • Essential Science Fiction Novels - Volume 9

    by Abraham Merritt, George Griffith, H. G. Wells, John Jacob Astor, Otis Adelbert Kline, August Nemo ...
    Series Book 8 - Essential Science Fiction Novels
    Welcome to the Essential Science Fiction Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about the incredible technologies of the future, time travel and its consequences, adventures in interstellar spaceships, strange post-apocalyptic worlds, dangerous alien invasions and everything else the authors dreamed of or feared for the future of humanity.For this book, the literary ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Journey in Other Worlds

    A Romance of the Future

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    In this science fiction classic we meet President Bearwarden, Dr. Cortlandt and Ayrault approaching Jupiter in their spaceship, Callisto. The three explorers travel the galaxy from Jupiter to Mars to Saturn and the wide spaces in between before returning to Mother Earth.This space saga was written by the American businessman John Jacob Astor, a member of the prominent Astor family. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • A Journey in Other Worlds

    A Romance of the Future

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    In this science fiction classic we meet President Bearwarden, Dr. Cortlandt and Ayrault approaching Jupiter in their spaceship, Callisto. The three explorers travel the galaxy from Jupiter to Mars to Saturn and the wide spaces in between before returning to Mother Earth.This space saga was written by the American businessman John Jacob Astor, a member of the prominent Astor family. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • A Journey in Other Worlds

    A Romance of the Future

    by John Jacob Astor ...
    What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present?A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a ... Read more

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