Collide

I cut my teeth at an early age on books by such brought up writers as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, E.E. “Doc” Smith and his Skylark of Valeron series, and a great deal of more.

I read the books discussed here when I was a pre-teen, and was in truth disappointed in the 1951 movie when I saw it in the 1970′s, so bear with me if I get any details wrong.

When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide were written in the 1930′s by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer, the science of rocketry was still beauteous new.

The book When Worlds Collide details the tryouts and triumphs of a coalition of American scientists and civilians as they struggle to build a space ark to carry survivors of the humane race to Bronson Beta, a associate planet to Bronson Alpha, which is on a collision course with the earth. They believe Bronson Beta will take on a stable orbit around the sun and that it will be an earth-like planet with an oxygen atmosphere.

The collision will demolish the world and wipe it from existence. Time is running out, the planet world and it is people are suffering from terrible weather, panic, and earthquakes from the tidal stresses as the much larger Bronson Alpha approaches earth. The coalition of scientists and civilians struggle together to build 2 spaceships to land on Bronson Beta, and will have to work through mutiny, earthquakes, and more as they struggle to finish in time. The arks take off as the world is being destroyed.

Other countries have also built ships to voyage to the new world, which in fact does assume an earth-like orbit around the sun and is conveniently terran in nature of gravity, atmosphere, and climate.

In After Worlds Collide, two American ships land on Bronson Beta, altho they are divided from each other and lose contact. A British ship crashes into a lake on the new planet, and the survivors are captured by The Dominion of Asian Realists, which consist of Russians, Japanese, and Germans who have managed to make it to the new world also. How suitable of a combining seeing as how WWII was a few years away for most of the world at that time. (Japan had taken control of China way before WWII for the rest of us)

The book tells of the Americans struggle to survive, and their finding the remains of cities and technologies of the innovative race which apparently wasn’t progressed sufficient and will have to have passed away off when their world was ejected from their native solar system. (Who could survive their oxygen atmosphere freezing solid in the cold depths of space anyhow?) The alien technology is integral to their fight versus the tyranny of the dominion. The Americans and freedom prevailed, the British were freed, and the book ended with someone being pregnant, so you knew they would make a go of it.

It was a terrifi story for a young boy with a bright imagination and space adventures in mind to receive pleasure from and feel a percentage of.

I would hope that any movie remake would be more to the book story line, and that they would follow with After Worlds Collide as a sequel to it.

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Sherry and Merrick’s story proceeds in this sequel to Collide. In this installment, we come face to face with old acquantances and new friends and new enemies. Things will alter for all of them specially when a little girl is found and everyone’s loyalties are tested. A revelation may trouble the delicate remainder they’ve all tried so hard to set. There’s new love, new rivalries and new transformations in the continuing series of Collide.

About the AuthorShelly is a YA author from a little town in Georgia and loves everything in regards to the south. She is wife to a wondrous husband and stay at home mom to two boisterous and mischievous boys who keep her on her toes. They presently reside in everyplace USA as they happily travel all over with her husband’s job. She loves to spend time with her family and friends, go out to eat at new restaurants and website see in the new areas they travel to, listen to music and likewise LOVES to read. Her own books take place by accident and she revels in the writing and imagination process. She doesn’t go anyplace without her notepad for fear of an idea creeping up and not being competent to write it down immediately, even in the middle of the night, where her best ideas are born.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great continutation of an Awesome Series
By Jody Duffy
Uprising continues with Shelly and Merrick’s love story that began in the apocolypic Collide. The chemistry is explosive and draws the reader into the relationships that build among the rebels. This book opens as the resistance has built an expanding underground bunker under a convenience store. It is the perfect hideout outside of town and provides much needed shelter for the group. Throughout the book, the group continues to grow in numbers as they seek out other Keepers and Specials who need shelter. Sherry has taken a caregiver role by cooking and mothering the group. Merrick and Jeff are looked to as the leaders and protectors of the ragtag family.

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