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ASTOR, JOHN JACOB A Journey in Other Worlds. A romance of the future, by John Jacob Astor. With ten FP illustrations.
New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1894, First Edition. Hard Cover, 20 cm.vi p. [2], 476 Pp. front. Plates. Ill.: Dan Beard. VG. Silver & Black Dec. Cloth./None. No.ΒΆ Astor's only novel, scientific curiosity also led him to invent a a bicycle brake and improve the turbine. However he was best known as the builder of the Astor section of the Waldorf-Astoria and for his tragic death on the Titanic. This was "A pioneering science fiction work that combines a utopian vision, interplanetary travel, and a mystical vision of life after death. It is of considerable literary, historical, and social interest." A novel of the future featuring three utopias: a Christian heaven on Saturn; a garden of eden-like new world on Jupiter; and a technologically oriented world of businessmen. An unusual book, by an unusual author. Magill; Survey of Science Fiction Literature, pp 1098-1101. "As technological prophecy, often excellent." Bleiler: Science Fiction, The Early Years, #85. ".. paradise on Earth. Astor, scion of the family of the same name, went down with the Titanic." Negley, Utopian Literature, 47; Locke, Voyages in Space, 27; Bleiler p. 12; III Wright 148 "Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Year 2000." RLIn, 3 Locs..
Offered for US$ 350.00 by: Zita Books - Book number: 000031
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