A Journey In Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

Authors: Astor IV, John Jacob
Publisher: HarperPerennial Classics
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000
ISBN: 9781443415590, Related ISBNs: 1443415596, 9781443415590
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 517,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

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 a tour of the solar system that takes it to Jupiter, a wilderness paradise, and Saturn, where secrets about the fate of man are revealed. Both wildly imaginative and oddly prescient, A Journey in Other Worlds gives remarkable insight into how the future was viewed at the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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