![]() The spirit beings provide the explorers with foresight of their own deaths. ![]() Saturn, in contrast, is an ancient world of silent spirits. The Americans discover a wealth of exploitable resources: iron, silver, gold, lead, copper, coal, and oil. Jupiter proves to be a jungle world, with flesh-eating plants, vampire bats, giant snakes and mastodons, and flying lizards. Space travel is achieved by linking an airship to a comet. Race conflict is a thing of the past, since the "dark elements" of the American hegemony have died out. and Canada, Mexico, and the countries of South America have requested annexation. European nations have been taken over by socialist governments, which have sold most of their African colonies to the U.S. In Astor's novel, the future United States is a multi-continental superpower. ![]() 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). The book offers a fictional account of life in the year 2000. A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future is a science fiction novel by John Jacob Astor IV, published in 1894.
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