“The Combat of the Dragons”, by Daniel Carter Beard, for John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds (1894).
Featured on PDR in the essay Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future
During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s _A Journey in Other Worlds_, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future.
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The Combat of the Dragons
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1894
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A Journey in Other Worlds
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