Series
Bronson Beta
Edwin Balmer, Philip Wylie, Jeff Deischer & R. L. Helms · 5 novels · 1933–2017
When Worlds Collide (1933) and its sequel After Worlds Collide (1934), written together by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie, follow a small group of survivors who escape a doomed Earth as the rogue planet Bronson Alpha destroys it, landing on its companion world Bronson Beta to begin again. The two novels form a self-contained disaster-and-survival duology.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Bronson Beta at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1930s2
- 1940s0
- 1950s0
- 1960s0
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s3
Shape
5 novels
4 authors
reads like:science fictionspace colonizationother star systemsnear futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Terrans of Betadarkest · most intense
- After Worlds Collidebrightest · calmest