A Journey in Other Worlds

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{{Short description|1894 novel by John Jacob Astor IV}}
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{{infobox book
| name = A Journey in Other Worlds
| author = [[John Jacob Astor IV]]
| image = A Journey in Other Worlds 1 (front cover).jpg
| illustrator = [[Daniel Carter Beard|Dan Beard]]
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Science fiction [[Speculative fiction]] [[Utopian and dystopian fiction|Utopian fiction]]
| publisher = [[D. Appleton & Co.]]
| pub_date = 1894
| media_type = Print (hardcover)
| pages = 476 pp.
}}

'''''A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future''''' is a [[science fiction]] novel by [[John Jacob Astor IV]], published in 1894.<ref>{{cite book|author =Pfaelzer, Jean |title=The Utopian Novel in America 1886–1896: The Politics of Form|location= Pittsburgh|publisher= [[University of Pittsburgh Press]]|date= 1984|pages= 108–11|isbn= 0-8229-5413-3}}</ref>

==Overview==
[[File:A Journey in Other Worlds - 02 - The Callisto was going straight up.jpg|thumb|left|''The Callisto was going straight up.'']]
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]], [[Interplanetary 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 [[Socialism|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. [[File:A Journey in Other Worlds - 06 - A Battle Royal on Jupiter.jpg|thumb|''A Battle Royal on Jupiter.'']]
Jupiter proves to be a jungle world, with flesh-eating plants, [[vampire bat]]s, giant snakes and [[mastodon]]s, 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 [[Planets beyond Neptune|beyond]] [[Neptune]] and is home to the souls of unworthy Earthlings.

==Other editions==
A paperback edition of ''A Journey in Other Worlds'' was issued in 2003.<ref>{{cite book|author =((Astor, John Jacob, IV)) |title=A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future|location= Lincoln, NE|publisher= Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series, Bison Books|date= 2003|isbn= 0-8032-5949-2}}</ref>

==See also==
{{portal|Novels}}
{{commons category}}
* ''[[Across the Zodiac]]'' (1880) by Percy Greg
* ''[[Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century]]'' (1874) by Andrew Blair
* ''[[The Great Romance]]'' (1881) by Anonymous
* ''[[Journey to Mars]]'' (1894) by Gustavus W. Pope
* ''[[Journey to Venus]]'' (1895) by Gustavus W. Pope
* ''[[A Prophetic Romance]]'' (1896) by John McCoy
* ''[[A Honeymoon in Space]]'' (1901) by George Griffith

==References==
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==Further reading==

* {{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=James Osler |author-link=J. O. Bailey |title=Pilgrims Through Space and Time: Trends and Patterns in Scientific and Utopian Fiction |date=1972 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-8371-6323-9 |pages=69–70 |language=en |chapter=Chapter Four: To the Islands of the Blest: Scientific Fiction, 1871–1894—C. The Wonderful Journey—3. To Other Planets |orig-date=1947 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/pilgrimsthroughs00nanc/page/68/mode/2up}}
* {{Cite book |last=Bleiler |first=Everett Franklin |author-link=E. F. Bleiler |title=[[Science-Fiction: The Early Years|Science-fiction, the Early Years: A Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science-fiction Stories from Earliest Times to the Appearance of the Genre Magazines in 1930: with Author, Title, and Motif Indexes]] |date=1990 |publisher=Kent State University Press |others=With the assistance of [[Richard Bleiler|Richard J. Bleiler]] |isbn=978-0-87338-416-2 |pages=23–24 |language=en |chapter=Astor, John Jacob [IV], (1864–1912) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KEZxhkG5eikC&pg=PA23}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2024 |title=Astor, John Jacob |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/astor_john_jacob |access-date=2024-12-04 |edition=4th |author1-last=Clute |author1-first=John |author1-link=John Clute |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-first=David |editor2-link=David Langford |editor3-last=Sleight |editor3-first=Graham |editor3-link=Graham Sleight}}
* {{Cite web |last=Green |first=Adam |author-link= |date=2014-07-10 |title=A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894) |url=https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-journey-in-other-worlds-a-romance-of-the-future-1894/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241004153905/https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-journey-in-other-worlds-a-romance-of-the-future-1894/ |archive-date=2024-10-04 |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=[[The Public Domain Review]] |language=en}}
* {{Cite book |last=Green |first=Roger Lancelyn |author-link=Roger Lancelyn Green |title=Into Other Worlds: Space-Flight in Fiction, from Lucian to Lewis |date=1975 |publisher=[[Arno Press]] |isbn=978-0-405-06329-9 |pages=155–161 |language=English |chapter=Worlds Beyond Mars |orig-date=1958 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0405063296/page/154/mode/2up}}
* {{Cite book |last=Guthke |first=Karl Siegfried |title=The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds, from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction |date=1990 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-1680-4 |location=Ithaca, New York |pages=369–370 |chapter=Novels at the Turn of the Century: The End of the World—the Future of Mankind |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/lastfrontierimag0000guth/page/368/mode/2up}}
* {{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Adam |author-link=Adam Roberts (British writer) |title=The History of Science Fiction |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-56957-8 |edition=2nd |series=Palgrave Histories of Literature |pages=165 |chapter=SF 1850–1900: Mobility and Mobilisation |doi=10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_7 |oclc=956382503 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gq7LDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA165}}
* {{Cite book |last=Seed |first=David |author-link= |title=Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction |date=2011 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-162010-2 |pages=10 |language=en |chapter=Voyages into Space |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUOFPjeUcF8C&pg=PA10}}
* {{Cite book |last=Shroyer |first=Frederick |title=Survey of Science Fiction Literature: Five Hundred 2,000-Word Essay Reviews of World-Famous Science Fiction Novels With 2,500 Bibliographical References |date=1979 |publisher=[[Salem Press]] |isbn=978-0-89356-194-9 |editor-last=Magill |editor-first=Frank N. |volume=3: Imp – Nin |pages=1098–1101 |language=en |chapter=A Journey in Other Worlds |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofsciencef0003unse/page/1098/mode/2up}}



==External links==
* {{gutenberg|no=1607|bullet=none}}
* {{librivox book | title=A Journey in Other Worlds | author=John Jacob Astor IV}}
* '''A Journey in Other Worlds. A Romance of the Future'''[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28A%20journey%20in%20other%20worlds.%20A%20romance%20of%20the%20future%29] preserved at [[Internet Archive]]

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[[Category:Novels set on Saturn]]
[[Category:Novels set in the 2000s]]
[[Category:Fiction set in 2000]]
[[Category:D. Appleton & Company books]]
[[Category:Novels set in the future]]

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