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Blast off for adventure! Awakening 500 years in the future, Anthony "Buck" Rogers finds himself in a shattered America under the ruthless rule of the Han empire. In "Armageddon--2419 A.D.," Rogers transforms from a bewildered World War I veteran into a beacon of hope for a new... Read Full Overview

Meet fiction's great pioneer of space exploration in his very first adventures. The swashbuckling character who ultimately became world-famous as Buck Rogers made his debut in the 1920s in these two tales from the legendary pulp magazine Amazing Stories. The intrepid voyager,... Read Full Overview

Armageddon 2419 A.D. is Philip Francis Nowlan's novella which first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel called The Airlords of Han was published in the March 1929 issue of Amazing Stories.The main character and the narrator in Armageddon... Read Full Overview

We have rarely printed a story in this magazine that for scientific interest, as well as suspense, could hold its own with this particular story. We prophesy that this story will become more valuable as the years go by. It certainly holds a number of interesting... Read Full Overview

This doomsday masterpiece is the original "Buck Rogers" story, a legendary and visionary character created by Philip Francis Nowlan.The novella weaves a tale about America in the 25th century, conquered by agroup called the Hans in 2109 A.D. and only now beginning to rebel. They... Read Full Overview

In Armageddon - 2419 A.D., Buck, a victim of accidental suspended animation, awakens five hundred years later to discover America groaning under the tyranny of the villainous Han, ruling from the safety of their armored machine-cities. Falling in love with one of America's new... Read Full Overview

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Philip Francis Nowlan (1888-1940) was a Pennsylvania-based journalist and science fiction author, best known as the creator of one of the genre's most well-known Radium Age (1904-33) characters: Buck Rogers. Whose popularity quickly dominated comic strip and... Read Full Overview

In Armageddon - 2419 A.D., Buck, a victim of accidental suspended animation, awakens five hundred years later to discover America groaning under the tyranny of the villainous Han, ruling from the safety of their armored machine-cities. Falling in love with one of America's new... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: rybody belong to a gang nowadays?""Naturally," she said, frowning. "If you don't belong to a gang, where and how do you live? Why have you not found and joined a gang? How do you eat? Where do you get your clothing?""I've been eating wild game for the past two weeks,"... Read Full Overview

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