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Beyond Worlds Collide #1
Beyond Worlds Collide
Written by pulp master Jeff Deischer, Beyond Worlds Collide is the sequel to the famous science fiction novel, When Worlds Collide and its sequel, After Worlds Collide. Beyond Worlds Collide begins a few months after After Worlds Collide ends and picks up some of the dangling plot threads and answers unanswered questions, such as, What happened to the Other People? Beyond Worlds Collide is faithful to the original two novels in style and tone, and true space The themes of the series are grand ones, the destruction of Earth, the establishing of a new home for humans and contact with alien life.
- GenresScience Fiction
222 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 13, 2016
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About the author
Jeff Deischer
115 books9 followersJeff Deischer is best known for his chronologically-minded essays, particularly the book-length The Man of Bronze: a Definitive Chronology, about the pulp DOC SAVAGE series. It is a definitive chronology, rather than the definitive chronology, he explains, because each chronologist of the DOC SAVAGE series has his own rules for constructing his own chronology. Jeff believes his own chronology to be the definitive one – using his rules, which were set down by Philip Jose Farmer in his book, Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.
Jeff was born in 1961, a few years too late, in his opinion. He missed out on the Beatles, the beginning of the Marvel Age of comic books and the early years of the Bantam reprints of the DOC SAVAGE series, the latter two of which he began reading when he was about ten years old (on the other hand, he was too young to go to Viet Nam …).
Jeff had become enamored of Heroes – with a capital “H”, for these were not ordinary men – at a very young age. He grew up watching DANIEL BOONE (to whom he is distantly related, by marriage), TARZAN, BATMAN, THE LONE RANGER and ZORRO on television. There is a large “Z” carved into his mother’s sewing machine that can attest to this fact (as you might imagine, it did not impress her the way it always did the peasants and soldiers on ZORRO).
This genre of fiction made a lasting impression on his creative view, and everything he writes has Good Guys and Bad Guys – in capital letters. As an adult writer, he tries to make his characters human, as well.
Jeff began writing as a young teenager, and, predictably, all of it was bad. He started to write seriously while in college, but spent the next decade creating characters and universes and planning stories without seeing much of it to fruition. This wasted time is his biggest regret in life.
In the early 1990s, Jeff began a correspondence with noted pulp historian and novelist Will Murray, while he was writing both the DOC SAVAGE and THE DESTROYER series (THE DESTROYER #102 is actually dedicated to Jeff). Jeff currently consults on Will Murray’s DOC SAVAGE books (as evidenced by the acknowledgements pages in the novels of “The Wild Adventures of …” series), a privilege that he enjoys. Will Murray’s sage advice helped turn Jeff into a true author.
Producing few books over the next few years, Jeff’s writing finally attained professional grade, and, after being laid off from the auto industry in 2007, he was able to devote more time to writing. From 2008, he produced an average of three books a year, most of it fiction, and most of that pulp. Reading so much of the writing of Lester Dent, the first, most prolific and best of those using the DOC SAVAGE house name “Kenneth Robeson”, Jeff’s own natural style is similar to Dent’s. He “turns this up” when writing pulp, and “turns this down” when writing non-pulp fiction.
Jeff primarily writes fiction, and, combining his twin loves of superheroes and pulp, began THE GOLDEN AGE series in 2012. This resurrected, revamped and revitalized the largely forgotten characters of Ned Pines’ Standard, Better and Nedor publishing companies. These characters, drawn from superhero, pulp and mystic milieus, fill the “Auric Universe”, as Jeff calls it.
Jeff’s webpage is jeffdeischer.blogspot.com, where he posts the first chapters of his novels, so that potential readers can peruse his work without having to spend several dollars on a trade paperback to find out if they like it or not.
Jeff was born in 1961, a few years too late, in his opinion. He missed out on the Beatles, the beginning of the Marvel Age of comic books and the early years of the Bantam reprints of the DOC SAVAGE series, the latter two of which he began reading when he was about ten years old (on the other hand, he was too young to go to Viet Nam …).
Jeff had become enamored of Heroes – with a capital “H”, for these were not ordinary men – at a very young age. He grew up watching DANIEL BOONE (to whom he is distantly related, by marriage), TARZAN, BATMAN, THE LONE RANGER and ZORRO on television. There is a large “Z” carved into his mother’s sewing machine that can attest to this fact (as you might imagine, it did not impress her the way it always did the peasants and soldiers on ZORRO).
This genre of fiction made a lasting impression on his creative view, and everything he writes has Good Guys and Bad Guys – in capital letters. As an adult writer, he tries to make his characters human, as well.
Jeff began writing as a young teenager, and, predictably, all of it was bad. He started to write seriously while in college, but spent the next decade creating characters and universes and planning stories without seeing much of it to fruition. This wasted time is his biggest regret in life.
In the early 1990s, Jeff began a correspondence with noted pulp historian and novelist Will Murray, while he was writing both the DOC SAVAGE and THE DESTROYER series (THE DESTROYER #102 is actually dedicated to Jeff). Jeff currently consults on Will Murray’s DOC SAVAGE books (as evidenced by the acknowledgements pages in the novels of “The Wild Adventures of …” series), a privilege that he enjoys. Will Murray’s sage advice helped turn Jeff into a true author.
Producing few books over the next few years, Jeff’s writing finally attained professional grade, and, after being laid off from the auto industry in 2007, he was able to devote more time to writing. From 2008, he produced an average of three books a year, most of it fiction, and most of that pulp. Reading so much of the writing of Lester Dent, the first, most prolific and best of those using the DOC SAVAGE house name “Kenneth Robeson”, Jeff’s own natural style is similar to Dent’s. He “turns this up” when writing pulp, and “turns this down” when writing non-pulp fiction.
Jeff primarily writes fiction, and, combining his twin loves of superheroes and pulp, began THE GOLDEN AGE series in 2012. This resurrected, revamped and revitalized the largely forgotten characters of Ned Pines’ Standard, Better and Nedor publishing companies. These characters, drawn from superhero, pulp and mystic milieus, fill the “Auric Universe”, as Jeff calls it.
Jeff’s webpage is jeffdeischer.blogspot.com, where he posts the first chapters of his novels, so that potential readers can peruse his work without having to spend several dollars on a trade paperback to find out if they like it or not.
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October 20, 2022
Having read the original science fiction classics, When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide written back in the 1930’s, I decided to read the follow up books written a few years ago. I wanted to see one author’s vision of what happened to the brave souls who made the crossing from the doomed earth to the new planet which effectively replaced it, Bronson Beta. This first book, definitely in the style of pulp fiction is a decent start. Without giving spoilers, the main participants are back dealing with a new set of issues as well as many more inhabitants that they realized. The story makes sense with the originals. My biggest criticism is that it is entirely male oriented, women playin minor roles of little importance, other than as bold mares. Still, a worthwhile read if you enjoyed the originals. The book could have been better with editing. One section in particular should have at least gone through a spell check, at least the Kindle version.
October 31, 2022
Sadly Different Author
Book three has the misfortune of being written by a different who had no problem changing some fund@mental things about the situation the survivors from Earth find themselves in. Though loosely built on the earlier novels the changes wrought are disconcerting and change the whole flavor of the story.
Book three has the misfortune of being written by a different who had no problem changing some fund@mental things about the situation the survivors from Earth find themselves in. Though loosely built on the earlier novels the changes wrought are disconcerting and change the whole flavor of the story.
March 13, 2023
enjoyable, if pulpy, read
story moves along pretty well and is well structured, if formulaic. the writing tends to be a bit juvenile and I’d expect better proofreading. not keen on the introduction of historical figures to apparently “punch it up”, but guess that’s down to taste. some divergence from the original two books is distracting at times. a decent light read.
story moves along pretty well and is well structured, if formulaic. the writing tends to be a bit juvenile and I’d expect better proofreading. not keen on the introduction of historical figures to apparently “punch it up”, but guess that’s down to taste. some divergence from the original two books is distracting at times. a decent light read.
February 19, 2026
Interesting read
The classic when worlds collide was thought to be a stand alone, then I found the second and then the third in the series. Good story, you have to adjust for the time it was written, and the dark mood of the world-yet it is timely today...
The classic when worlds collide was thought to be a stand alone, then I found the second and then the third in the series. Good story, you have to adjust for the time it was written, and the dark mood of the world-yet it is timely today...
January 15, 2024
Wow! I reread "when" and "after" at just the right time. Now the story continues. And the writing style was very like the original. Well done!
May 6, 2025
Thrilling reading
As good as the original if not better. Answered a lot of questions and kept me interested all the way. Sorry to see it end.
As good as the original if not better. Answered a lot of questions and kept me interested all the way. Sorry to see it end.
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews