When Worlds Collide

Paperback edition of the 1932 novel, basis of the classic 1951 movie.from back cover:"All who are to leave the Earth forever, board the space ship!"Two outlaw planets were hurtling through outer space on a direct collision course toward Earth. In secret, a few great scientists bean to build rocket ships to evacuate a chosen few-- the most brilliant and biologically useful --to a distant planet where the human race could start anew.But the secret leaked, and it touched off a savage struggle among the world's most powerful men for the million-to-one chance of survival...