A Journey in Other Worlds

A Journey in Other Worlds

"A Journey in Other Worlds" is a science fiction novel by John Jacob Astor IV, published in 1894. A paperback edition was issued in Lincoln, Nebraska by Bison Books in 2003 with ISBN 0-8032-5949-2.

It contains a fictional account of life in the year 2000. It contains much 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 a plan to adjust the Earth's axial tilt.

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