The Triumph of Time by James Blish

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1958. Avon.

In three years' time the two universes were doomed to inevitable, catastrophic collision! When the scientists of the wandering planet, journeying through inter-galactic space, heard the sound of hydrogen atoms coming into existence out of nothing, they realized that they had accidentally discovered the birthplace of continuous creation. They had lifted the curtain and caught an instant's glimpse of the unknowable. But to have looked it full in the face could have been no more fatal.for later, much later, they were to learn that t hey had also uncovered mankind's Day of Judgment!