Book cover for After Worlds Collide by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie

After Worlds Collide

2025 Released
247 Pages
4-5 Hours
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Wildside PressISBN 9781667663647

The Earth has been obliterated, crushed by the rogue planet Bronson Alpha. Now the remnants of humanity—a carefully selected group of scientists, engineers, and specialists—have landed on Bronson Beta, a mysterious world that promises survival but guarantees nothing.

As the American survivors explore their new home, they discover ruins of an advanced civilization that vanished long ago. Strange structures dot the landscape, evidence of beings who mastered technology far beyond human understanding. But the Americans are not alone. Other ships escaped Earth's destruction: Germans, Russians, and Japanese colonists who view this virgin world as territory to be conquered, not shared.

With tensions rising between rival factions and resources scarce, the fragile hope of humanity's second chance teeters on the brink of war. The survivors must unravel the secrets of Bronson Beta's previous inhabitants while defending their colony from those who would seize it by force. Ancient mysteries, political intrigue, and the desperate struggle for survival combine in this thrilling continuation of one of science fiction's most influential apocalyptic sagas.

Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie (1902–1971) was a prolific writer whose work spanned a range of genres from men’s adventure and detective stories to science fiction and social criticism. Several of his novels, including When Worlds Collide, Night Unto Night, and Los Angeles: A.D. 2017, as well as the Crunch & Des stories, were adapted as movies and television shows, and his novel Gladiator is considered one of the inspirations for the iconic character Superman. Wylie was also a commentator on American society. In 1942 he published Generation of Vipers, a bestselling book of essays that attacked the complacencies of the American way of life. His novel The Disappearance presents a dystopia in which men and women vanish from the perception of the opposite sex, allowing Wylie to explore the issues of women’s rights and homosexuality. Wylie recognized early the potentially catastrophic effects of pollution and climate change and wrote both fiction and nonfiction on those topics.

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