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After Worlds Collide (original 1933; edition 1973)

by Philip & Balmer Wylie, Edwin

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Title:After Worlds Collide
Authors:Philip & Balmer Wylie, Edwin
Info:Warner Paperback (1973), 6th printing, Paperback
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A movie, "When Worlds Collide", was made for the prequel to this book. I enjoy it as much, if not more, than the first book. The word pictures of the sparkling dome-enclosed cities, with their skyscrapers and avenues, are what captured my imagination. ( )
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Early in the middle third of the twentieth century a brilliant astronomer named Sven Bronson observed through a telescope in South Africa that two bodies were moving through space toward the solar system.
Eliot James sat at a metal desk inside the space ship which had conveyed a few score human beings from the doomed Earth to safety on the sun's new planet Bronson Beta.
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They stand there in the sunshine under the strange sky on our brown earth - forty three men, fifty seven women, two children. (p10)
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When a group of survivors from Earth landed on Bronson Beta, they expected absolute desolation. This Earth-like planet from another universe had been hurtling through space, cold and utter darkness for countless millenia. All life should have perished millions of years ago.

But the [normal] Earth-people found a breathtakingly beautiful city, encased in a huge, transparent metal bubble; magnificent apartments filled with every luxury; food for a lifetime in the vast, empty kitchens; but no trace of either of life - or death.

Then the humans learned that they were not alone on Bronson Beta...
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A handful of Supermen colonize a distant planet. Vintage, classic science fiction

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