A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future
By John Jacob Astor IV
Length10h 1m
About this audiobook
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. 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 through apergy, an anti-gravitational energy force. 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. Out beyond Neptune, the voyagers discover the icy world Cassandra, home to the souls of unworthy Earthlings. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 24, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE.
20Chapter XI.Contents
2Book I.
21Chapter XII.Contents
3Chapter II.Contents
22Chapter XIII.Contents
4Chapter III.Contents
23Chapter XIV.Contents
5Chapter IV.Contents
24Book III.
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6Chapter V.Contents
25Chapter II.Contents
7Chapter VI.Contents
26Chapter III.Contents
8Chapter VII.Contents
27Chapter IV.Contents
9Chapter VIII.Contents
28Chapter V.Contents
10Book II.
29Chapter VI.Contents
11Chapter II.Contents
30Chapter VII.Contents
12Chapter III.Contents
31Chapter VIII.Contents
13Chapter IV.Contents
32Chapter IX.Contents
14Chapter V.Contents
33Chapter X.Contents
15Chapter VI.Contents
34Chapter XI.Contents
16Chapter VII.Contents
35Chapter XII.Contents
17Chapter VIII.Contents
36Chapter XIII.Contents
18Chapter IX.Contents
37Chapter XIV.Contents
19Chapter X.Contents
38Chapter XV.Contents
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