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One of the most prescient science fiction novels ever published, it tells the story of life in the far future of the year 2000 and a trip to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond in a fabulous anti-gravity spaceship. No less unusual are the author and illustrator. John Jacob Astor was one of the wealthiest men in America and co-founder of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, while Dan Beard created the Boy Scouts of America.