They even have to use actual paper books, wow. The book gives great portrayals of humans and human nature which hasn't changed all that much over the years.or decades.or centuries.or Magnetic tape is in it's heyday here and we predate videotape. The world of science fiction before miniaturization, portable computers, lasers, etc. As a matter of fact you might find it interesting. You will definitely spot the time lag here when you start to deal with science in the book but it doesn't take away from the experience. As noted this book is very dated, was written long ago and has some pretty un-PC parts, but it's a good story and shouldn't be missed. I have the book with When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide both in it though it's simply called When Worlds Collide. He sold the rights for two others that were never produced.ĭated but wonderful book. Over nine movies were made from novels or stories by Wylie. Most of his major writings contain critical, though often philosophical, views on man and society as a result of his studies and interest in psychology, biology, ethnology, and physics. He also wrote screenplays while in Hollywood, was an editor for Farrar & Rinehart, served on the Dade County, Florida Defense Council, was a director of the Lerner Marine Laboratory, and at one time was an adviser to the chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee for Atomic Energy which led to the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission. After a divorcing his first wife, Philip Wylie married Frederica Ballard who was born and raised in Rushford, New York they are both buried in Rushford.Ī writer of fiction and nonfiction, his output included hundreds of short stories, articles, serials, syndicated newspaper columns, novels, and works of social criticism. He married Sally Ondek, and had one child, Karen, an author who became the inventor of animal 'clicker' training. His family moved to Montclair, New Jersey and he later attended Princeton University from 1920–1923. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Philip Gordon Wylie was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when Philip was five years old.

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