A Journey In Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

by John Jacob Astor IV

Overview

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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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443415590
Publisher:	HarperCollins Canada
Publication date:	03/06/2012
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	517
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

One of the world’s wealthiest men, John Jacob Astor was an American businessman, inventor and author. Astor’s best known literary work is A Journey to Other Worlds, a science fiction novel about life on Saturn and Jupiter in the year 2000. In addition to his literary pursuits, Astor also patented several inventions, helped develop a turbine engine, and built the Astoria Hotel in New York City. John Jacob Astor died tragically when the Titanic sank during its maiden voyage in April 1912, after seeing his young wife safely into a lifeboat.