Philip Wylie

The Answer is a 1955 anti-war science fiction novella by Philip Wylie. The US and USSR are conducting nuclear tests and both discover they have killed an Angel in the form of a beautiful young boy. Initially both sides suspect each other, but they ultimately discover that the message is the Answer to all man's dilemmas - love one another.

"The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of February at four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally at the same instant, without regard to time belts, and was followed by such phenomena as might be expected after happenings of that nature." On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes as men vanish...

"A team of scientists work hurriedly to build a spaceship in time to escape the doomed Earth." --

In the world's upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: fourteen people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to maintain their subsistence for upwards of two years. The group includes a forward-thinking millionaire and his family, a levelheaded Jewish scientist, a playboy, an aging African American servant and his daughter, a gigolo and the glamorous woman who has...

Six stories about two-deep-sea fishing-boat owners in Florida.

Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.