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I cut my teeth at an early age on books by such noted authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, E.E. "Doc" Smith and his Skylark of Valeron series, and many more.
I read the books discussed here when I was a pre-teen, and was actually 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 pretty new.
The book When Worlds Collide details the trials and triumphs of a coalition of American scientists and civilians as they struggle to build a space ark to carry survivors of the human race to Bronson Beta, a companion 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 earth and wipe it from existence. Time is running out, the planet earth and its 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 must work through mutiny, earthquakes, and more as they struggle to finish in time. The arks take off as the earth 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, although they are separated 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 appropriate of a combination 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 advanced race which apparently wasn't advanced enough and must have died 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 against 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 wonderful story for a young boy with a vivid imagination and space adventures in mind to enjoy and feel a part 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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