Kyto, Tony's Japanese former manservant, finds a piece of blank paper blowing in the wind: watermarked in English, it provides a first clue that another group of Earth survivors have landed on Bronson Beta. That night, an aircraft passes near the camp, beating a hasty retreat when the campfire is spotted. After a mysterious disease strikes the camp, killing three colonists, Hendron forbids exploration, but some of the colonists defy him and strike out, bringing back wood from a distant forest. Tony Drake and another associate scout out for suitable farmland, but during their return journey following the alien road, the two men come across a vehicle. The survivors of Hendron's own, smaller Ark set out to establish a colony, aware (from a road they find) that an alien civilization once existed on Bronson Beta. Both American ships reach this new world, as do at least two others, though all four become separated and each is unaware of the fates of the others. The Americans, under the leadership of Cole Hendron, managed to launch two space Arks, carrying hundreds of people, as well as the animals, plants and knowledge they will need to hopefully survive on the alien planet. In a desperate attempt to save a portion of humanity, the United States and several other countries feverishly constructed space arks to transport a select few to Bronson Beta. However, its companion, the roughly Earth-sized Bronson Beta remained behind and settled into a stable, but eccentric, orbit around the sun. Much shorter and less florid than the original novel, this one tells the story of the survivors' progress on their new world, Bronson Beta, after the destruction of the Earth.īronson Alpha, the larger of two rogue planets, collided with and destroyed the Earth, before leaving the solar system.

After Worlds Collide first appeared as a six-part monthly serial (November 1933 through April 1934) in Blue Book magazine. Both novels were co-written by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie. After Worlds Collide (1934) is a sequel to the 1933 science fiction novel, When Worlds Collide.

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