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Summary: What 13 year old could resist the allure of this book?
Review: I first read this marvelous book after having discovered it and the sequel in one volume in a burned out abandoned house. It made such an impression on me that I have never forgotten it. I would love to see someone print the book and the sequel in acid free paper and leather bindings in the classic style. It would become a treasured part of my library of fine books. I have seen most of the recent crop of end of the world movies and none can compare with the vision expressed in this series. Reprint it please.
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Summary: read this book as a child and have not forgotten it since
Review: I found this book in the library when I attended elementary school. I was in the fourth grade when I first read this book (both Volumes 1 and 2). It was great and I have had troubles finding the book ever since. i also have seen the movie. It would be great with today's special effects. Stars Wars move over!! What am I saying!!!! I loved the book, but drat it is out of print.
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Summary: Twentieth century sci-fi at it's best
Review: I have just recently obtained a copy of When Worlds Collide, which is a book that, despite it's being written in the early part of this century, is entertaining, and irresistable. The idea of an astronomical body in direct collision with Earth has recently been many peoples thoughts due to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet encounter with Jupiter. This book is a well written classic which reads like a documentary, with the lifes, fears, loves and other emotions of people attempting to try to escape the doomed Earth. The chapter noting the passing of Bronson Alpha and Beta was explained as if it really happened, and the final climax was riveting! I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: The greatest Sci-fi book of all time !
Review: I have read this book at least once a year for the last 10 years.Its that good.It may of been written many years ago,but the descriptions and the way the story was told,makes you think that it can and might happen in todays world
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Summary: Classic Science Fiction with Modern Human Interest
Review: I haven't read this book and it's sequel for at least 10 years but will do so again very soon. I am also looking for a nicely bound edition for my personal library. I greatly enjoyed the religious and love aspects of the sequel. I gave a copy to my daughter when she was 13 so she could get an appreciation that there was more to science fiction than blasters and aliens. She also enjoyed it very much. As to the movie, I'm a fan of old scifi movies and judge these based on the period they were released and not by modern day epics. I have this on tape and try to watch once a year or so.
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Summary: Best Science-Fiction I've read !!!
Review: I read all the science-fiction books in our high school library in 1958 and by far this was and has been the BEST Science-Fiction book I've ever seen. In April of 1972 I was fortunate enough to find When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide published in 1 book, published by J.B. Lippincott Company It is bound as 1 book with both books in it. Both are about 340 pages long. To me After Worlds Collide was the better of the 2 books, but you need the lead-in When Worlds Collide to prepare you for After. I was intrigued by the old civilization found on the new planet. Especially since this was written in the 1930's. A super combination book. A REAL CLASSIC !!!
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Summary: It's also available in german
Review: I read the two books as a child in german language; they are in the same categorie as Heinlein, Assimov and so on
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Summary: read this as a child and would love to find a copy
Review: I read this book in grade school and I would love for my children to be able to enjoy the thrill of reading and reading this book like I have. I have looked for a copy but can't afford what I do find (only copy I could find was in a rare book store in Ft. Worth). But I am in constant look out for this book. I fell in love with reading just by reading this book
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Summary: My favorite Book of all time.
Review: I read this book, for a class; we were supposed to pick any book we wanted to. Me not being into reading books that much, went into one of our cupboards in our living room. There I started looking thru some of the books my dad got at a Library sale. This when i found the book entitled "When Worlds Collide" I open it up thinking its going to be about something that is metaphorical, i was wrong. This book is literally about 2 worlds colliding. I started reading it, right there on the floor and i couldn't stop reading it; i was reading the book in school, at times when i wasn't supposed to be reading; like history class. I read all day all night, I didn't want it to end. I read this one part i still remeber in history class, the description of the mathematician, was spot on just like me. I did notice some fallacies in the book, about space, and the spaceship being made out of a material that is radioactive, but i thought nothing of it since the book was so old, they wouldn't be able to know certain things about space. I kinda read over the part really fast while they were in space, because of the schema i already had about space. I read the whole book in before the project was supposed to be completed, thats when i realised, that i was only about half-way thru the book. It didn't say on the cover, it did say on the inside cover it contained, both "when world collide" and "after worlds collide" I did not know this, so when i reached the second book, i stopped; I didn't want the book to end. I later read the second part, it was great, it was just like how i would imagine exploring a new planet would be. I did think the ending of the second part was little too abrupt, i was somewhat dissapointed of the ending, it seemed like they ran out of ideas and raced to the finish. One thing i did notice being different with my book was there were lots of spelling errors, and wierd symbols in the words. eg. "æ" they were all over and i had trouble finding the deffinitions for those words. I later found out that my copy is an original copy. So thats why there are all those spelling errors and stuff. This is truly my favorite book of all time, and it has brought me into the world of reading more than anything else.
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Summary: Move Over Deep Impact This Book Really Rocks
Review: I too read this book when I was young boy. It is the book that sparked my interest in reading. I have been looking for this book for many years and was so excited when I finally found it on Amazon. This book is for all you space nuts that can't tear yourself away from the apocalyptic visions of our planet on Discovery and TLC. This is the ultimate doomsday scenario ever written.
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