Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future
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1894
English
- 01 - Preface and Book 1, Chapter 1: Jupiter
- 02 - Book 1, Chapter 2: Antecedental
- 03 - Book 1, Chapter 3: President Bearwarden's Speech
- 04 - Book 1, Chapter 4: Professor Cortland's Historical Sketch of the World in A. D. 2000
- 05 - Book 1, Chapter 5: Doctor Cortland's History Continued
- 06 - Book 1, Chapter 6: Far-Reaching Plans
- 07 - Book 1, Chapter 7: Hard At Work
- 08 - Book 1, Chapter 8: Good-Bye
- 09 - Book 2, Chapter 1: The Last of the Earth
- 10 - Book 2, Chapter 2: Space and Mars
- 11 - Book 2, Chapter 3: Heavenly Bodies
- 12 - Book 2, Chapter 4: Preparing To Alight
- 13 - Book 2, Chapter 5: Exploration and Excitement
- 14 - Book 2, Chapter 6: Mastodon and Will-O'-The_Wisp
- 15 - Book 2, Chapter 7: An Unseen Hunter
- 16 - Book 2, Chapter 8: Sportsmens Reveries
- 17 - Book 2, Chapter 9: The Honey of Death
- 18 - Book 2, Chapter 10: Changing Landscapes
- 19 - Book 2, Chapter 11: A Jovian Niagara
- 20 - Book 2, Chapter 12: Hills and Valleys
- 21 - Book 2, Chapter 13: North-Polar Discoveries
- 22 - Book 2, Chapter 14: The Scene Shifts
- 23 - Book 3, Chapter 1: Saturn
- 24 - Book 3, Chapter 2: The Spirit's First Visit
- 25 - Book 3, Chapter 3: Doubts and Philosophy
- 26 - Book 3, Chapter 4: A Providential Intervention
- 27 - Book 3, Chapter 5: Ayrault's Vision
- 28 - Book 3, Chapter 6: A Great Void and A Great Longing
- 29 - Book 3, Chapter 7: The Spirit's Second Visit
- 30 - Book 3, Chapter 8: Cassandra and Cosmology
- 31 - Book 3, Chapter 9: Dr. Cortlandt Sees His Grave
- 32 - Book 3, Chapter 10: Ayrault
- 33 - Book 3, Chapter 11: Dreamland To Shadowland
- 34 - Book 3, Chapter 12: Sheol
- 35 - Book 3, Chapter 13: The Priest's Sermon
- 36 - Book 3, Chapter 14: Hic Ille Jacet
- 37 - Book 3, Chapter 15: Mother Earth
A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future is a science fiction novel by John Jacob Astor IV, published in 1894. The book offers a fictional account of life in the year 2000. It contains abundant speculation about technological invention, including descriptions of a world-wide 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 Company). In Astor's novel, the future United States is a multi-continental superpower. European nations have been taken over by socialist governments, which have sold most of their African colonies to the U.S.; and Canada, Mexico, and the countries of South America have requested annexation. Race conflict is a thing of the past, since the "dark elements" of the American hegemony have died out. Space travel is achieved by linking an airship to a comet. Jupiter proves to be a jungle world, with flesh-eating plants, vampire bats, giant snakes and mastodons, and flying lizards. The Americans discover a wealth of exploitable resources: iron, silver, gold, lead, copper, coal, and oil. Saturn, in contrast, is an ancient world of silent spirits. The spirit beings provide the explorers with foresight of their own deaths. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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