by 'Philip Wylie', 'Edwin Balmer'
When Worlds Collide is a book that delighted me on basically every level. It completely caught me up and swept me away. Once I was immersed within it, the world that has developed since the 30s ceased to exist. A delightful surprise. I wasn’t expecting much going into this. I’ve just come off readin...
All those other apocalyptic books with their puny viruses and piddling nuclear wars have nothing on When Worlds Collide, which is about the smashing of Earth itself into jagged little pieces.Or it would be -- if physics respected the three-act structure.The book begins with the man who is carrying t...
This book moved me all over the realm of ratings but I ended up at a four because it intrigued me and kept me reading. As far as the science went, it was way outdated. This was at the beginning of nuclear science and the author was fairly cavalier about atomic energy and space flight. Also, It wa...
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