A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

About this book

In a future of extraordinary inventions, travellers set out from Earth for Jupiter and Saturn. Among alien landscapes, their expedition begins to suggest that the universe may contain stranger destinations than any planet.

John Jacob Astor mixes technological optimism, strange creatures and giant-planet exploration with later questions about survival after death. The journey takes travellers through imagined landscapes of Jupiter and Saturn before turning towards spiritual speculation. Dan Beard's illustrations supply much of the expedition's extravagant visual scale.