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1933. When Worlds Collide

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• When Worlds Collide [top]
  First published in 1933 in the US by Lippincott
  First published in 1933 in Great Britain by Stanley Paul
  Republished in 1975 in Great Britain by Sphere Science Fiction, pbk

Story: Through the vacuum of space hurtled two rogue planets-on a collision course with Earth. Inevitably, Terra would die and with it most of the world's population. For a handful there was hope: the Earth's scientists laboured to prepare space craft before the cataclysm, atomic arks that would carry a chosen few to a new world. But the few would be selected for the talents they would bring with them and to win a new home planet they would have to forsake the people they loved on doomed Earth