When Worlds Collide (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) - Softcover

Wylie, Philip; Balmer, Edwin

 
9780803298149: When Worlds Collide (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803298145 ISBN 13: 9780803298149
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.
 
A crackling plot and sizzling, cataclysmic vision have made When Worlds Collide one of the most popular and influential end-of-the-world novels of all time. This Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition features the original story and its sequel, After Worlds Collide.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip Wylie (1902&;71) wrote several classic works of speculative fiction, including Gladiator and The Disappearance, as well as a popular work of nonfiction, A Generation of Vipers.
 
Edwin Balmer (1883&;1959), an engineer, was also a writer of detective stories and speculative fiction. Introducer John Varley is an acclaimed science fiction writer and a winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. His books include Wizard, Demon, and Steel Beach.

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A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.

A crackling plot and sizzling, cataclysmic vision have made When Worlds Collide one of the most popular and influential end-of-the-world novels of all time. This Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition features the original story and its sequel, After Worlds Collide.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803298145
ISBN 13 
9780803298149
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Anzahl der Seiten
379
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