John Jacob Astor IV

American businessman, real estate magnate, inventor and writer; prominent member of the Astor family and notable survivor casualty of the RMS Titanic sinking.

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  1. 1. A Journey In Other Worlds

    A Romance of the Future

    A late-19th-century speculative adventure in which a group of American explorers voyage to Venus and Jupiter in a far future solar system, encountering strange landscapes and advanced societies; the narrative mixes travelogue and scientific imagination with utopian social commentary, depicting radical technological change, altered social arrangements, and the writers’ reflections on how humanity’s institutions and capabilities might evolve when measured against the civilizations and environments discovered on other worlds.

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