A Journey in Other Worlds - Astor, John Jacob
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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. Thoughtful, adventurous, and replete with a dazzling array of futuristic devices, this is a classic, unforgettable story of utopias and humankind's restless exploration of the stars.

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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. Thoughtful, adventurous, and replete with a dazzling array of futuristic devices, this is a classic, unforgettable story of utopias and humankind's restless exploration of the stars.
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John Jacob Astor (1864-1912) was one of the wealthiest men in the world and an inventor of such devices as the pneumatic walkway, a bicycle brake, a flying machine, and an internal combustion engine. He died on the doomed Titanic voyage. S. M. Stirling is the author of such novels as Island in the Sea of Time, The Peshawar Lancers, Conquistador, and The Domination.