A stunning trip across the galaxy and into the futureFocusing on Richard Ayrault, a stockholder of the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company, A Journey in Other Worlds takes readers across the solar system to Jupiter and Saturn. On Jupiter, Astor creates a fantastically outsize world of gushing volcanoes, crashing waterfalls, and otherworldly flora and fauna. In contrast, his Saturn is an introspective and philosophical land. While Ayrault's journey is the...

A voyage to Jupiter and Saturn in the year 2000, with the earth's axis straightened out by engineering and the spirits of the dead waiting on the further planet. Astor wrote it in 1894; he built the Astoria hotel, invented a bicycle brake and a turbine engine, and went down with the Titanic. This edition is bound with a gallery of 50 plates, among them paintings by Edvard Munch, Paul Cézanne and Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, alongside 8 restored and coloured illustrations.

According to Wikipedia: "John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic."

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 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. Eur...

What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation, A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a whole. Seeking other plane...

Justice delayed is justice denied.Michael’s idyllic life was shattered when a brutal attack claimed his parents’ lives and the police did nothing to identify their assailants. Too young to be a vigilante, he vows to one day seek justice himself; even if it means turning back time.Likewise, her partner’s sudden murder plunged Cassie’s career into chaos. A headstrong but promising young officer, she is determined to seek her own justice; even if the suspects are her superiors...

Our laws, our society, our emotions, our hearts, our expressions – these are all governed by our almighty God. Muslims put their faiths in the Quran, whereas Christians preach the beatitudes as well as the New Testament. Both claim to praise God, except through vastly different teachings and ways. God is universally acknowledged as the greatest legislator of all time. However, the question to ask here is, have His laws caused oppression rather than salvation? Intuition tells one that the s...

The story is set in the late 20th century and follows a group of adventurers who embark on a journey to explore the planets of our solar system. They use a spaceship powered by a new invention called "aeriolite," which allows for interplanetary travel. The group visits several planets, including Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, and encounters various forms of extraterrestrial life.Each planet they visit presents a unique set of challenges and wonders. For example, Venus is depicted as a planet ...

Author John Jacob Astor met his end in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he was born into wealth, Astor achieved fame as a popular science fiction writer. In this, his best-known work, Astor spins a captivating tale of what life would be like in the twenty-first century, including many technological predictions that are amazingly accurate. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to th...

Author John Jacob Astor met his end in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he was born into wealth, Astor achieved fame as a popular science fiction writer. In this, his best-known work, Astor spins a captivating tale of what life would be like in the twenty-first century, including many technological predictions that are amazingly accurate.

These three sci-fi novels from the dawn of the twentieth century are among the first works of fiction to imagine visiting other planets.A Honeymoon in Space: Lenox, the Earl of Redgrave, has invented a flying ship with the power to break free of Earth's gravity. But before taking to the stars, he has some personal business to attend to—namely, wooing an old flame. The lady in question is Zaidie, a woman about to be forced into a loveless marriage. Stealing...

A pioneering science-fiction romance envisioning advanced technology, space travel, and future civilizations at the dawn of the 20th century.