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John Jacob Astor, the great-grandson of the famous fur trader and financier of the same name, was one of the wealthiest men on earth, with assets somewhere around $100 million (compared to J.P. Morgan,
who had amassed a fortune of only $30 million). Astor was an inventor (of a bicycle brake, a storage battery, an internal combustion engine, a flying machine, a machine for removing surface dirt from roads,
and an improved marine turbine engine) and also founder of the Astoria (later the Waldorf Astoria) Hotel in New York City. His pneumatic walkway invention won a prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and
he was one of the first Americans to own a motor car. One of his dreams was to find a way to create rain by pumping warm air from the surface of the earth into the upper atmosphere. His fascination with science
led him to begin writing his only novel, A Journey In Other Worlds when he was only 28 years old, and spent over two years writing it. He served in the Spanish-American War, and lost his life in the Titanic
disaster, leading his wife to a lifeboat but returning himself to the sinking ship.
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.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth (1864) By: Jules Verne
Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads
his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the “center of the Earth”. They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again
in southern Italy.
A Princess of Mars (1912) By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter, a Confederate American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that
he has great strength on this planet, due to its lesser gravity. Carter soon falls in among the Tharks, a nomadic tribe of the planet's warlike, four-armed, green inhabitants. Thanks to his strength and combat
abilities he rises in position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chiefs.
The Tharks subsequently capture Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, a member of the humanoid red Martian race. The red Martians inhabit a loose network of city states and control the desert planet's canals,
along which its agriculture is concentrated. Carter rescues her from the green men to return her to her people
Maskull is Everyman, and you soon identify with him. Bored with an ordinary life, he accepts an invitation to see the planet Tormance. His host is a small, ugly and cynical man named Krag.
Left alone on Tormance, Maskull encounters various races, most of who worship a god named Crystalman and regard Krag as the devil. If figuring out the truth weren’t challenging enough, Maskull
inexplicably sprouts new limbs or organs, so as to blend in with the locals, and finds that those organs affect his thought patterns and his perception of reality. His confusion is all too reminiscent
of life in a human body on planet Earth.
At the Earth's Core (1914) By Edgar Rice Burroughs
When the inventor Perry fires up his burrowing prospector, it runs out of control, plunging him with his young protege into the centre of the earth. There, instead of being destroyed by the molten lava
they expect to find, they discover an inner world of bizarre savagery and unearthly beauty.
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Imagine our world was nothing more than a Story - you, the room you're in and everyone on the entire planet are just figments in the imagination of a Storyteller.
But he's dying. And then what would become of our world? Would it just fade away? A creature called Bozo volunteers to enter the Story and look for a Cure..
Bridge at War is set in 1946, immediately after the end of the Second World War. The story follows three young men (Tom, Alistair and Bram) who were comrades in the Army during the War. Bram gently introduces the world of Lyndesfarne to the others, and engineers their recruitment into the Guardians, one of the secretive organisations whose purpose is to protect the crossing to Lyndesfarne.
Chronicles of Caledon; Sword of Souls By: Douglas S. Taylor
The Sword of Souls is the first book of the mystifying Chronicles of Caledon. The book introduces the reader to the Caledon world (Caledon Prime) and a brief history of the planet and how it came to be up to present time is briefly written in the introduction. However, you must read into the book where there are dark passages that clues the reader into more of the rich history adding to the ominous ambience of the series. The book also introduces the people and kingdoms of this distant world as well as setting the stage in a powerfully rich and dynamic saga. The Sword of Souls, nam...
The visions of worlds, tools, spaces, and methods of conveyance not yet known, are all part of the internal dialogue of the concept artist. It is this ability to step outside
of one's present condition and provide a voice to the hypothetical future that places them in a distinct position; one where their understanding of technology, expression
of art and method of communication result in the objects and environments that provide influence on modern societies' daily experience. In the end, art’s role is not to be
amusing either for the artist or the audience…it’s to interpret life, in the past, the present—and the future.
Francis Ford Coppola
The year 2114. Someone has stolen a dangerous, potentially violent humanoid clone, capable of unimaginable telepathic powers. That someone accomplished the impossible—transportation
of the clone's physical body across inter-dimensional boundaries. The clone remains hidden in the dark recesses of a previously unexplored dimension. And only Alan, a class A telepath, can stop him.
The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country.
Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed. It is likely that he did this to protect himself from accusations of being unpatriotic,
although Erewhon is a satire of Victorian society.
The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer for about
four years (1860–1864) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island.
In that country if a man falls into ill health, or catches any disorder, or fails bodily in any way before he is seventy years old,
he is tried before a jury of his countrymen, and if convicted is held up to public scorn and sentenced more or less severely as the case may be.
In the late 22nd Century, two Brazilian siblings come to the United States in search of great opportunities. Instead, they are pulled into an ideological civil
war between two former political allies, Senator Davis Keller and President Sam Hardin. The barbaric Hardin fights for power; the evolved Davis Keller
fights to stop the nation from collapsing into a terrifying new Dark Age.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions By Edwin A. Abbott
This allegorical tale explores the limitations of human perceptions of reality. The author advocates the need for openness and humility
in pursuit of spiritual growth and offers profound insights into the inner world of the spiritual dimension.
The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland which is occupied by geometric figures, line-segments (females) and regular polygons with various numbers of sides.
The narrator is a humble Square, a member of the social caste of gentlemen and professionals in a society of geometric figures, who guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions.
The square has a dream about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) which is inhabited by "lustrous points." He attempts to convince the realm's ignorant monarch of a second dimension but finds
that it is essentially impossible to make him see outside of his eternally straight line.
Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac's glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future.
But he didn't know the past quite well enough.
Hradzka holstered his blaster, threw the switch that sealed the "time-machine", put on the antigrav-unit and started the time-shift unit. He reached out and set the destination-dial
for the mid-Fifty-Second Century of the Atomic Era. That would land him in the Ninth Age of Chaos, following the Two-Century War and the collapse of the World Theocracy. A good time for his purpose:
the world would be slipping back into barbarism, and yet possess the technologies of former civilizations. A hundred little national states would be trying to regain social stability, competing and
warring with one another.
FRANKENSTEIN or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and the novel was published when she was 19.
The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how
to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended incorrectly to refer to the monster as "Frankenstein". Frankenstein
is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. It was also a warning against the expansion of modern man
in the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus.
From the Dreams of Morpheus: Five Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2009) By: Steven Ford
A collection of five short storys of science fiction and the supernatural. You'll journey from the tormented dreams of a prisoner on a distant planet, to a graveyard encounter unlike any other,
to the mysterious suicide of an entire alien civilization, to a radio that receives whispers from the universe, to the most frightening airplane ride of your life.
I decree that the fifty-eighth year of my life begins today. The golden rays of Tau Ceti once again have found their way to the line I etched in the sandstone so long ago. Warmer days have come and Ceti
Prime has completed another circuit of its star. A Ceti year is shorter than an Earth year by 36 days, but I have compensated accordingly. What year it is on Earth is beyond my reckoning…or my interest.
Happy birthday to me.
From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) tells the story of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman,
who build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from Florida to a Moon landing.
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