She wanted him, and she wanted him bad. On the heels of college graduation and the unexpected death of her mother, Emily Cooper moves to New York City to join her boyfriend for a fresh start. Then she meets Gavin Blake. A rich and notorious playboy, Gavin is dangerously sexy and charming as hell.
When their paths cross again through an unexpected mutual acquaintance, she tries to deny the connection she feels, but Mr. Published first as a six-part serial in , When Worlds Collide is a story of golden-age cataclysmic vision, bursting into the hearts and minds of science fiction readers ever since.
The thrilling plot follows an astronomer, Sven Bronson, as he tries to save humankind from two approaching rogue planets that are sure to destroy the Earth as they readjust their orbit. Banding together with a team of scientists, the race to escape to the skies begins—but the more immediate threat seems to already be on the ground. When Worlds Collide was made into a film in , and inspired various comic strips and pulp conventions in Science Fiction, and is now available as an ebook for the first time.
At ten years old, Noah Jameson and Cooper Bradshaw collided mid-air when they dove for the same football. For three years, they were inseparable Noah and Cooper never knew what happened to each other. Now, seventeen years later, after finding his boyfriend in bed with another man, Noah returns to Blackcreek looking for a fresh start. And damned if he doesn't find his old friend grew up to be sexy as sin. Coop can't believe Noah-the only person he trusted with the guilt over his parents' death-is back.
And gay Or that Cooper himself suddenly wants another man in his bed for the first time. There's no denying the attraction and emotion between them, but can they overcome the ghosts of their pasts to have a future together? Sixteen-year-old Winnie Schulde has always seen splits--the moment when two possible outcomes diverge, one in her universe and one in another.
Multiverse theory, Winnie knows, is all too real, though she has never been anything but an observer of its implications--a secret she keeps hidden from just about everyone, as she knows the uses to which it might be put in the midst of a raging WWII. But her physicist father, wrapped up in his research and made cruel by his grief after the loss of Winnie's mother, believes that if he pushes her hard enough, she can choose one split over another and maybe, just maybe, change their future and their past.
Winnie is certain that her father's theories are just that, so she plays along in an effort to placate him. Until one day, when her father's experiment goes wrong and Scott, the kind and handsome lab assistant Winnie loves from afar, is seriously injured.
Without meaning to, Winnie chooses the split where Scott is unharmed. And in doing so, finds herself pulled into another universe, an alternate reality.
One that already has a Winnie. In this darkly thrilling novel that blends science and war with love and loss, some actions just can't be undone. Praise for When You and I Collide: "A serious tale of attempting reinvention at the cost of rending reality. This book is a reminder of how fragile relationships can be once trust has been broken. It is the story of Addison, a successful sports photographer, who finds married life becoming too predictable. She decides to take some chances and crazy risks and is soon romantically involved with a much younger lover.
But the excitement soon leads to deception and Addison discovers how daunting deception can be. Suddenly her life is thrown into a tailspin and everyone she once trusted becomes entangled in a world where truth and fantasy collide dangerously and leave behind serious consequences. The grandsons of Experiencing God author Henry Blackaby encourage young people to become "Colliders"—authentic Christians who engage the secular world head-on without compromise.
Where Worlds Collide is the fascinating story of a biologist's spectacular discovery that has deeply changed the way we view the world. Sherry has always known there was something out there. In this book, we experience the thrill of travelling to strange new worlds and meeting aliens that are like nothing ever before encountered. There are the Sebemos of the planet Xulud. They have a body that looks like rough stone and are shaped like a long macaroni noodle. There are six spindly-like tentacles around their bodies, and they have a face that resembles a computer chip.
Their leader is Gray Munchkin. There are the Gubeiggas of the planet Esile. They are almost like humans, but with pointy heads and wings. They are quite good-looking. Their leader is Queen Becca. There are the Cyclopzorgs of the planet Ocat, who want to change the way the Sebemos and the Gubeiggas live.
They have bodies that are half-bear and half-giraffe. There are the Brainoids of the planet Barbabeetle, who are very wise and want to help Omsoc and Etnorb. This race looks like beautiful sunflowers, with faces that have some humanlike characteristics. Their leader is Onigiul. The immortal, wise one is Aznagarb.
There is also the aspiration of new hope for peace and harmony among those who seek this. Our two travelers achieve what seems to be the impossible, against all odds and great danger to themselves. Where Worlds Collide is the fascinating story of a biologist's spectacular discovery that has deeply changed the way we view the world. Marcus Samuels is a medical missionary in Japan, and his life has been God's work despite a severe anxiety disorder.
After 12 years, he aches to start his own family life back in the States. Spurred into motion by his mother's sudden illness, he's caught off-guard when he realizes just how much he'll miss Keiko Oichi, a fellow pediatrician at the Children's Christian Mission Hospital.
Keiko grew up in the United States as a foreign exchange student. Her conversion to Christ, as well as getting to know Marcus, have radically altered her emotionally-detached acceptance of her traditional Japanese future.
When Marcus says he's leaving Japan for good, she feels lost at the prospect of losing him. When Keiko's parents learn of her conversion and feelings for a Christian man, the couple faces a crossroads in love and faith that will change both of their lives irrevocably.
These all-new stories include the reveal of the ape who calls the remains of the Statue of Liberty home, and the first look at the world left behind following the events of War for the Planet of the Apes. Opposite Worlds is the follow-up to Eugene's novel Ghosters, which tells the story of Frank Walsh from the age of twelve to twenty-five. In that novel, having lost his faith, Frank leaves the seminary, home and family, and goes to London to forge a new identity.
Opposite Worlds finds Frank alone and lonely in London, having been jilted by Marina, his Yugoslav girlfriend, on their wedding day. On the rebound from this, he has a passionate affair with Kalli, a gorgeous Greek singer and belly-dancer, who is a student in his class at the school in Soho where he teaches English to foreign students. When Kalli leaves him, Frank is once again left high and dry. Then one evening, in a folk club in an Irish pub, he hears a pretty young Irish girl singing and instantly falls in love with her.
Her name is Mary, he contrives to meet her and she falls in love with him. Love leads to marriage - reluctantly at first on Frank's part - but their marriage proves to be a collision of two very different, indeed opposite, worlds Jill and Seneca are both very accomplished and successful black women in their midthirties.
Although their dissimilar personalities make everyone wonder how it could be so, they've been best friends since they were college freshman. Accepting a job promotion requires Jill to relocate to the same city where Seneca already lives.
After her move, Jill finds Seneca to be head over heels for a man named Barry. He has no desire whatsoever to be with Seneca, however. After he meets Jill, Barry wants to be with her, and Jill wants to be with him.
For Jill and Barry to be together, that, of course, might put Jill and Seneca's eighteen-year friendship in jeopardy. Wily locked in their flying fortress, Wiley egg! Inside all kinds of powerful defense, including Metal Sonic and Bass!
For this army, almost every robot Master ever made! Enter Sonic, Mega Man and the army on their own! Friends Sonic join Proto Man, Rush and Duo in the epic battle to break through to total evil doctors, rewritten two realities, and save their home worlds!
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