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A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

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Number of Chapters: 37

Length: 11 hours and 17 minutes

Language: English

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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01 - Preface and Book 1, Chapter 1: Jupiter (Tom Weiss)
02 - Book 1, Chapter 2: Antecedental (Tom Weiss)
03 - Book 1, Chapter 3: President Bearwarden's Speech (Tom Weiss)
04 - Book 1, Chapter 4: Professor Cortland's Historical Sketch of the World in A. D. 2000 (Tom Weiss)
05 - Book 1, Chapter 5: Doctor Cortland's History Continued (Tom Weiss)
06 - Book 1, Chapter 6: Far-Reaching Plans (Tom Weiss)
07 - Book 1, Chapter 7: Hard At Work (Tom Weiss)
08 - Book 1, Chapter 8: Good-Bye (Tom Weiss)
09 - Book 2, Chapter 1: The Last of the Earth (Tom Weiss)
10 - Book 2, Chapter 2: Space and Mars (Tom Weiss)
11 - Book 2, Chapter 3: Heavenly Bodies (Tom Weiss)
12 - Book 2, Chapter 4: Preparing To Alight (Tom Weiss)
13 - Book 2, Chapter 5: Exploration and Excitement (Tom Weiss)
14 - Book 2, Chapter 6: Mastodon and Will-O'-The_Wisp (Tom Weiss)
15 - Book 2, Chapter 7: An Unseen Hunter (Tom Weiss)
16 - Book 2, Chapter 8: Sportsmens Reveries (Tom Weiss)
17 - Book 2, Chapter 9: The Honey of Death (Tom Weiss)
18 - Book 2, Chapter 10: Changing Landscapes (Tom Weiss)
19 - Book 2, Chapter 11: A Jovian Niagara (Tom Weiss)
20 - Book 2, Chapter 12: Hills and Valleys (Tom Weiss)
21 - Book 2, Chapter 13: North-Polar Discoveries (Tom Weiss)
22 - Book 2, Chapter 14: The Scene Shifts (Tom Weiss)
23 - Book 3, Chapter 1: Saturn (Tom Weiss)
24 - Book 3, Chapter 2: The Spirit's First Visit (Tom Weiss)
25 - Book 3, Chapter 3: Doubts and Philosophy (Tom Weiss)
26 - Book 3, Chapter 4: A Providential Intervention (Tom Weiss)
27 - Book 3, Chapter 5: Ayrault's Vision (Tom Weiss)
28 - Book 3, Chapter 6: A Great Void and A Great Longing (Tom Weiss)
29 - Book 3, Chapter 7: The Spirit's Second Visit (Tom Weiss)
30 - Book 3, Chapter 8: Cassandra and Cosmology (Tom Weiss)
31 - Book 3, Chapter 9: Dr. Cortlandt Sees His Grave (Tom Weiss)
32 - Book 3, Chapter 10: Ayrault (Tom Weiss)
33 - Book 3, Chapter 11: Dreamland To Shadowland (Tom Weiss)
34 - Book 3, Chapter 12: Sheol (Tom Weiss)
35 - Book 3, Chapter 13: The Priest's Sermon (Tom Weiss)
36 - Book 3, Chapter 14: Hic Ille Jacet (Tom Weiss)
37 - Book 3, Chapter 15: Mother Earth (Tom Weiss)
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