In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And in Washington D.C., an air disaster investigator named Smith is about to get a phone call that will change his life...and end the world as we know it.

One of the greatest science fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful...and definitely insane. "These books are going to be around for a long time." --Locus

A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans. A crackling plot and sizzling, cataclysmic vision have made "When Worlds Collide" one of the most popular and influential end-of-the-world novels of all time. This Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition features the original story and its sequel, "After Worlds Collide."

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Varley's monumental trilogy is hailed as a modern triumph of the imagination by critics and fans--an epic that begins with humankind's exploration of a massive satellite orbiting Saturn, and the shocking discovery that the satellite is a giant alien being named Gaea. This first novel of the trilogy is now repackaged.

Was ist eine "Weganische Feuerschnecke"? Gibt es tatsachlich einen "Kellerbar-Song"? Und wieso hat John Varley in der Asimov-Kellerbar einen Vortrag gehalten? Ob es um die Grundung eines SF-Clubs, die Organisation von Cons oder die strategische Verteidigung gegen schlechte Kritiken geht: Im zweiten Band der Kellerbar-Satiren findet der Leser die ultimativen Antworten auf alle ungelosten Lebensfragen eines Science-Fiction-Fans. In diesem hier vorliegenden Band prasentiert der Autor einen Querschnitt aus den neuesten Ereignissen in der Asimov-Kellerbar, wie auch Satiren aus dem ganz normalen Wahnsinn des Lebens eines Science-Fiction-Fans.