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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 ...

A Journey in Other Worlds A Romance of the Future is a captivating science fiction novel by John Jacob Astor IV, published in 1894. This imaginative tale paints a vivid picture of life in the year 2000, filled with groundbreaking technological predictions. It introduces readers to a world connected by a global telephone network, harnessing solar power, and soaring through the skies with advanced air travel. Astors narrative takes us on an extraordinary journey through space to the planets Saturn and Jupiter, where ambitious terraforming projects‚Aîlike damming the Arctic Ocean and altering ...