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When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide is a 1933 science fiction novel co-written by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer; they both also co-authored the sequel After Worlds Collide . It was first published as a six-part monthly serial in Blue Book magazine, illustrated by Joseph Franké.


“What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!”

Philip Wylie book When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide (1933), co-written with Edwin Balmer

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