title: The Comet Seekers: A Novel
author:  Helen Sedgwick 
description: &#8220;A gorgeous novel that should resonate with fans of Audrey Niffenegger&#8217;s <i>The Time Traveller&#8217;s Wife&#8230;</i>A breath-taking tale of love, loss and heartbreak. You&#8217;ll be utterly captivated from the first page.&#8221; (<b>Elle (Book of the Month)</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;An exquisitely layered, thrilling novel, which leaps across centuries and continents to delve into the role of destiny and the elusiveness of perception and memory.&#8221; (<b>Carmela Ciuraru, New York Times</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;A haunting and wonderfully ethereal debut novel about first loves, inescapable loss, and the search for one&#8217;s place in a complicated world . . . Uniquely structured and stylistically fascinating, the multilayered story comes full circle in a denouement that is both heartbreaking and satisfying.&#8221; (<b>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;Haunting and beautiful, THE COMET SEEKERS follows a constellation of lives from modern Antarctica to medieval England, all of them connected by an extraordinary mystery hidden deep in the past. A captivating story, deftly told, about those who are driven to explore, and those who must stay behind.&#8221; (<b>Helene Wecker, New York Times bestselling author of THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;A fluid narrative voice, pointedly lyrical and without a trace of irony, gives equal weight to the perceptions of both ghosts and living characters. And, as in the work of contemporary fabulists like Kelly Link, Helen Oyeyemi and Audrey Niffenegger, the real intersects matter-of-factly with the supernatural&#8230;A different spin to the idea of a love that&#8217;s meant to be.&#8221; (<b>Andrea Barrett, New York Times Book Review</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;A stellar love story that echoes down decades and centuries.&#8221; (<b>Glamour</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;Readers will be enveloped in the magical world that Sedgwick creates and will grapple with the big issues she tackles-love, family, freedom, and loneliness. Those drawn to intimate stories of family drama are sure to respond to this beautiful, character-driven novel, which is reminiscent of the work of Amy Bloom and Elizabeth Strout.&#8221; (<b>Booklist</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;Sedgwick weaves science and the imagination into a melancholy yet magical tale&#8230;Readers would do well to suspend disbelief and open their hearts to the romance, the lush prose, and the mystery of Sedgwick&#8217;s original and inventive debut.&#8221; (<b>Library Journal</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;In her ambitious . . . debut novel, journalist, editor, and former research physicist Sedgwick leaps through time, from 1066 to the present, following the trajectories of her characters&#8217; lives as various comets surge gloriously through the night skies.&#8221; (<b>Kirkus</b>)<br /><br />&#8220;Helen Sedgwick has written a first novel of remarkable grace, beauty and insight, in which a careful love of language meets an immense storytelling talent. I was moved and inspired by this book.&#8221; (<b>Joseph O'Connor, author of STAR OF THE SEA</b>)
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  Title: A Journey in Other Worlds  
  A Romance of the Future  
    
  Author: John Jacob Astor  
    
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  # A JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS
  
  
  ## A ROMANCE OF THE FUTURE
  
  
  ## BY JOHN JAC