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Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie

Author Biography & Works

Philip Gordon Wylie was an American writer of works ranging from science fiction, mysteries, and social diatribes, to satire concerning topics such as ecology and the threat of nuclear holocaust.

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Books by Philip Wylie

When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide

(When Worlds Collide) Start here

Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...

After Worlds Collide

After Worlds Collide

(When Worlds Collide)

The survivors of *When Worlds Collide* find themselves struggling to establish a new society on the world of Bronson Beta, which has assumed the orbit of the now-destroyed Earth. Within...

The Terrans Of Beta

The Terrans Of Beta

(When Worlds Collide)

The Terrans of Beta, also published as After Worlds Collide, is a sequel to Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's When Worlds Collide, set on the new planet where the survivors...

The Disappearance

The Disappearance

The apocalypse here is kind of personal. The world's just fine to start with, but... From one moment to the next all the women disappear from the world of men—and...

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