John Jacob Astor, JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS: A Romance of the Future, PB, 2003

Description: John Jacob Astor, JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS: A Romance of the Future, PB, 2003 Softcover book in very good, clean condition. Very clean text. See photos for the Table of Contents. $4.75 domestic shipping. International shipping at cost. Please email with any questions. Experience a thrilling journey through other worlds with John Jacob Astor's "Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future". This novel is a part of the Bison Frontiers of Imagination Ser. and was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2003. The 234-page trade paperback is illustrated and written in English, the original language of the book. It belongs to the genre of Science Fiction/Action & Adventure and General Science Fiction. The book is compact, measuring 9 inches in length, 7.4 inches in width, and 0.6 inches in height, with a weight of 12.3 ounces. Get ready for an exciting adventure through various worlds with this captivating novel. 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 an adjustment of the axial tilt of the Earth (Terra) by the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company. 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., while Canada, Mexico, and the countries of South America have requested annexation. Space travel is achieved through apergy, an anti-gravitational energy force. A Battle Royal on Jupiter. 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. These beings provide the explorers with foresight of their own deaths. One of the spirits, a deceased bishop, tells the voyagers about the icy world Cassandra, which orbits the Sun beyond Neptune and is home to the souls of unworthy Earthlings.

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