A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future, credited to John Jacob Astor IV, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future, by John Jacob Astor IV. Read by Tom Weiss. A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future is a science fiction novel by John Jacob Astor IV, published in 1894. The book offers a fictional account of life in the year 2000. It contains abundant 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 terraforming engineering projects — damming the Arctic Ocean, and adjusting the Earth's axial tilt (by the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company). In Astor's novel, the future United States is a multi-continental superpower. European nations have been taken over by socialist governments, which have sold most of their African colonies to the U.S.; and Canada, Mexico, and the countries of South America have requested annexation. Race conflict is a thing of the past, since the "dark elements" of the American hegemony have died out. Space travel is achieved by linking an airship to a comet. Jupiter proves to be a jungle world, with flesh-eating plants, vampire bats, giant snakes and mastodons, and flying lizards. The Americans discover a wealth of exploitable resources: iron, silver, gold, lead, copper, coal, and oil. Saturn, in contrast, is an ancient world of silent spirits. The spirit beings provide the explorers with foresight of their own deaths. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future
• Author credits: John Jacob Astor IV
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 11:17:02

Catalogue topics

• librivox, audiobook, science fiction, Jupiter, Saturn

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - Preface and Book1, Chapter 1: Jupiter — 20:52
2. 02 - Book1, Chapter 2: Antecedental — 4:20
3. 03 - Book1, Chapter 3: President Bearwarden's Speech — 19:53
4. 04 - Book 1, Chapter 4: Professor Cortland's Historical Sketch of the World in A. D. 2000 — 27:16
5. 05 - Book 1, Chapter 5: Doctor Cortland's History Continued — 40:59
6. 06 - Book 1, Chapter 6: Far-Reaching Plans — 20:27
7. 07 - Book 1, Chapter 7: Hard At Work — 18:42
8. 08 - Book 1, Chapter 8: Good-Bye — 13:21
9. 09 - Book 2, Chapter 1: The Last of the Earth — 12:37
10. 10 - Book 2, Chapter 2: Space and Mars — 19:21
11. 11 - Book 2, Chapter 3: Heavenly Bodies — 16:59
12. 12 - Book 2, Chapter 4: Preparing To Alight — 5:55
13. 13 - Book 2, Chapter 5: Exploration and Excitement — 14:37
14. 14 - Book 2, Chapter 6: Mastodon and Will-O'-The_Wisp — 19:53
15. 15 - Book 2, Chapter 7: An Unseen Hunter — 13:26
16. 16 - Book 2, Chapter 8: Sportsmens Reveries — 17:27
17. 17 - Book 2, Chapter 9: The Honey of Death — 18:11
18. 18 - Book 2, Chapter 10: Changing Landscapes — 18:11
19. 19 - Book 2, Chapter 11: A Jovian Niagara — 23:15
20. 20 - Book 2, Chapter 12: Hills and Valleys — 27:44
21. 21 - Book 2, Chapter 13: North-Polar Discoveries — 20:16
22. 22 - Book 2, Chapter 14: The Scene Shifts — 23:54
23. 23 - Book 3, Chapter 1: Saturn — 15:15
24. 24 - Book 3, Chapter 2: The Spirit's First Visit — 27:23

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