A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

by John Jacob Astor

Book Overview

What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation, A Journey in Other Worlds races far... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1535003146
• ISBN13: 9781535003148
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Compare to Bellamy's "Looking Backward"

You may want to compare this to Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward", which was published in the 1890s. Both books looked forward a hundred years to 2000. Each author gave his vision of the future. Astor imbues this book with a somewhat polemical slant. [As indeed did Bellamy in his.] The result is a book that may not be the most gripping of reading by current standards, but which still gives insight into a mindset of that era.The contrast between the two books is reflected in Astor being a successful inventor. No doubt this gave him a very rosy tinged worldview, unlike Bellamy's socialist leanings. And that is the value of these two books considered as a pair. One uses the dominant value system of its time, the agressive capitalism, and the other speaks forth from the resultant opposite.Interesting to see Steve Stirling edit this book. He has done good research for his science fiction novels, and perhaps that led him to this, long obscure text.