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Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future Audiobook

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31/10/2024
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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 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 by linking an airship to a comet. 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. (Summary by Wikipedia)

 
 

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01 - Preface and Book 1, Chapter 1: Jupiter
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02 - Book 1, Chapter 2: Antecedental
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03 - Book 1, Chapter 3: President Bearwarden's Speech
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04 - Book 1, Chapter 4: Professor Cortland's Historical Sketch of the World in A. D. 2000
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05 - Book 1, Chapter 5: Doctor Cortland's History Continued
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06 - Book 1, Chapter 6: Far-Reaching Plans
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07 - Book 1, Chapter 7: Hard At Work
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08 - Book 1, Chapter 8: Good-Bye
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09 - Book 2, Chapter 1: The Last of the Earth
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10 - Book 2, Chapter 2: Space and Mars
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11 - Book 2, Chapter 3: Heavenly Bodies
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12 - Book 2, Chapter 4: Preparing To Alight
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13 - Book 2, Chapter 5: Exploration and Excitement
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14 - Book 2, Chapter 6: Mastodon and Will-O'-The_Wisp
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15 - Book 2, Chapter 7: An Unseen Hunter
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16 - Book 2, Chapter 8: Sportsmens Reveries
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17 - Book 2, Chapter 9: The Honey of Death
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18 - Book 2, Chapter 10: Changing Landscapes
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19 - Book 2, Chapter 11: A Jovian Niagara
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20 - Book 2, Chapter 12: Hills and Valleys
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21 - Book 2, Chapter 13: North-Polar Discoveries
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22 - Book 2, Chapter 14: The Scene Shifts
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23 - Book 3, Chapter 1: Saturn
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24 - Book 3, Chapter 2: The Spirit's First Visit
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25 - Book 3, Chapter 3: Doubts and Philosophy
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26 - Book 3, Chapter 4: A Providential Intervention
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27 - Book 3, Chapter 5: Ayrault's Vision
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28 - Book 3, Chapter 6: A Great Void and A Great Longing
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29 - Book 3, Chapter 7: The Spirit's Second Visit
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30 - Book 3, Chapter 8: Cassandra and Cosmology
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31 - Book 3, Chapter 9: Dr. Cortlandt Sees His Grave
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32 - Book 3, Chapter 10: Ayrault
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33 - Book 3, Chapter 11: Dreamland To Shadowland
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34 - Book 3, Chapter 12: Sheol
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35 - Book 3, Chapter 13: The Priest's Sermon
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36 - Book 3, Chapter 14: Hic Ille Jacet
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37 - Book 3, Chapter 15: Mother Earth