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“The Combat of the Dragons”, by Daniel Carter Beard, for John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds (1894) [Big game hunting on Saturn]

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Article about John Jacob Astor's sci fi novel 'Journey in Other Worlds' describing the future in the year 2000: an Anglophone globe carved up by the US and the UK, flying to Jupiter and Saturn for big game hunting, a straightened axis for the Earth, and free electricity everywhere.

• Public Domain Review - Colonizing the Cosmos

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• Archive.org - A journey in other worlds. A romance of the future by John Jacob Astor

(Yes, that John Jacob Astor.)