This blog is dedicated to John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the RMS Titanic 15 April 1912.
In addition to being one of the wealthiest men in New York City, Mr. Astor was the author of a science fiction novel, A Journey in Other Worlds (1894), in which he tells the story of an adventurous space flight to Jupiter. One must note that Orville and Wilbur Wright did not invent the airplane until 1903.
