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Memo To: Candidates for Planet Beta B
From: The Selection Committee
Subject: Women

The women will be chosen for one purpose only: to breed a new generation in the new world.

They will mate with whomever is chosen for them, based on whom we believe can best insure the strongest and most intelligent children for the new planet, and to establish a new generation of the greatest possible variety from the few individuals we hope to land safely.

Love and marriage are Earth concepts and will be tabu once the Chosen Ones are on Beta B.

That was the edictЧtake it or leave it. But if they left it, so would they leave their lovers and, indeed, their lives. ...

Books by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer

After Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide

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WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
BY PHILIP WYLIE and EDWIN BALMER

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Dedicated to Sally and Grace

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Copyright, 1932, 1933, by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie. Copyright renewed 1960 by Philip Wylie, Thomas Balmer, Mrs. William S. McChesney, Mrs. Joseph S. Thomas.
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| A Warner Communications Company First Printing: December 1962 Reissued: December 1982 15 14 13

Chapter 1ЧThe Amazing Errand

THE secret itself was still safe. It was clear that the public not yet could have learned it. No; the nature of the tremendous and terrific Discovery remained locked in the breasts of the men who had made it. No one had broken so badly under the burden of it that he had let slip any actual details of what had been learned.
But the fact that there was a secret, of incomparable importance, was out.
David Ransdell received plenty of proof of it, as he stood at the liner's rail, and the radiograms from shore were brought to him. He had had seven, all of the same sort, within the hour; and here was another.
He held it without opening it while he gazed across the sparkling water at the nearing shores of Long Island beyond which lay New York. Strange that, in a city which he could not yet see, men could be so excited about his errand, while the fellow-passengers, at his elbow, glanced at him with only mild curiosity at the sudden frequency of radiograms for him.
They would be far less indifferent, if they had read them.
The first, arriving less than an hour ago, offered him one thousand dollars for first and exclusive informationЧto be withheld from all others for twelve hoursЧof what he carried in his black box. It was signed by the most famous newspaper in New York.
Hardly had the messenger started back to the radio station when a second boy appeared with a message from another newspaper: "Two thousand dollars for first information of your business in New York."
Within ten minutes the offer had jumped to five thousand dollars, made by another paper. Plainly, the knowledge that there was a secret of utmost importance had spread swiftly!