A Brand New World

When a young newsman casually reports the discovery of a new star, he has no idea he is announcing the beginning of humanity's greatest crisis. The mysterious object, soon named Xenephrene, proves to be a planet nearly Earth's size, and as it moves closer, the world's weather turns violently strange: winter deepens in the north, while the south grows unnaturally warm. Behind public rumors, scientific secrecy, and government censorship, one terrifying truth emerges—Xenephrene is tugging Earth's axis out of balance. Ray Cummings's A Brand New World blends scientific wonder, disaster fiction, and romance as Peter Vanderstuyft is drawn from city newsrooms to his father's hidden research, then onward through a snowbound America toward a tropical plantation in Puerto Rico and the astonishing "Under Gardens" buried in the jungle of Xenephrene. There, amid reunion, secrecy, and strange new alliances, familiar lives are forced into an alien world where the future of Earth—and of everyone Peter loves—hangs in the balance. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.