Barbara Rush

After discovering that a meteor-like object buried under a landslide is an inhabited space ship from another planet, a young scientist delays an attack by panic-stricken townspeople so that the ship can leave the earth.

War of the worlds: The residents of a small town are intrigued when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. But, they soon find Martians intend an assault on the Earth, with hundreds of invulnerable ships. The invasion takes place all over the world, all the major cities are destroyed one after one, and even the atomic bomb can't stop them. When worlds collide: When scientists discover a distant planet is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth,...

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