When Worlds CollidePaperback Library, 1962 - 192 páginas The concept of Earth being struck by a large body from space has been a popular plot in several films. This 1932 volume, however, was possibly the first to present that scenario. Here, humankind races to complete a spacecraft--an airborne ark--that will carry an assortment of people to begin the population over again as a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth speeds toward a cataclysmic end. |
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... ship gets over . Do you supose there'll be other ships starting from this side of the world tomorrow night and from the other side , the evening after ? " " Father doesn't know . When the radios were working well , months ago , he ...
... ship gets over . Do you supose there'll be other ships starting from this side of the world tomorrow night and from the other side , the evening after ? " " Father doesn't know . When the radios were working well , months ago , he ...
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... Ships ; but some would be in one ship , some on the other . Would they meet again - on Bronson Beta ? Would either ship get there ? Would they rise only to drop from a great height back upon this earth ? What would happen ? Tony ...
... Ships ; but some would be in one ship , some on the other . Would they meet again - on Bronson Beta ? Would either ship get there ? Would they rise only to drop from a great height back upon this earth ? What would happen ? Tony ...
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... ship rise rapidly into the air on its column of flame . They must have watched it gain altitude vertically . They would have realized that it gathered momentum as it rose , and they would have seen that long trail of fire beneath each ship ...
... ship rise rapidly into the air on its column of flame . They must have watched it gain altitude vertically . They would have realized that it gathered momentum as it rose , and they would have seen that long trail of fire beneath each ship ...
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