The Airlords of Han by Philip Francis Nowlan
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Overview: Armageddon — 2419 A.D. introduced Anthony “Buck” Rogers to the world, helping to inaugurate the reign of full-grown interstellar Space Opera in American science fiction. The Airlords of Han is the sequel, published in the March 1929 issue of Amazing Stories. The two novellas ended up being an example of a character created by an author becoming far more well known than the author himself.
According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Armageddon (August 1928, Amazing) and the sequel, The Airlords of Han, were revised and put together in 1962, long after Nowlan’s death, as Armageddon 2419 AD.
The two stories take the hero, Anthony Rogers, via suspended animation, to a 25th century USA under the thumb of the tyrannous Hans, where the Americans are relegated to a nomadic existence in the forests outside the Han cities. Rogers soon becomes a central figure in the successful revolt, spurred by the successful invention and deployment of increasingly sophisticated weapons, including ray guns and “disintegrators.”
Rogers was renamed “Buck” and his exploits were retold and then extended through space in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the first science fiction comic strip, scripted and roughly sketched out by Nowlan, and drawn by Dick Calkins, which ran 1929-1967.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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