Armageddon 2419 A.D. (Heathen Edition)
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 radio serials of the early 20th century, culminating with the late-70s television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. But before he was Buck, he made his debut as Anthony Rogers in the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. Where, after becoming trapped in a coal mine collapse and falling into suspended animation, Rogers awakens in the 25th century to discover the United States has been conquered by a race of futuristic Mongols known as the Airlords of Han. Together with warrior girl Wilma Deering, Rogers uses his hard-won 20th century war strategies to ignite an explosive crusade for a new and free 25th-century America.
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"By the time I was ten a paperback reprint of these stories was among my most treasured possessions. It still is. The pages are yellowed and the cat has eaten the best part of the cover-but the magic is still there." -David J. Ritchie, Ares Magazine
"The re-presentation of these original Buck Rogers stories secures for Philip Francis Nowlan the important place he deserves as a shaper of modern science fiction." -Sam Moskowitz
"We prophesy that this story will become more valuable as the years go by. It certainly holds a number of interesting prophecies, many of which, no doubt, will come true. For wealth of science it will be hard to beat for some time to come. It is one of those rare stories that will bear reading and rereading many times." -Hugo Gernsback
"The quality of Nowlan's written science-fiction was certainly exceptionally high-even ten years ago, when the magazine science-fiction was only starting, the work Phil Nowlan did was of a grade that would have been acceptable and well rated against the much more highly evolved work of today." -John W. Campbell, Jr.
"Although not as well know as Edgar Rice Burroughs or E. E. Smith, Philip Francis Nowlan was probably their equal both as a writer and as an influence on modern science fiction . . . the Anthony Rogers stories stand up quite well even today. Nowlan was a talented writer, and, despite his small output, he is one of the most influential science fiction writers of the Gernsback era." -Michael M. Levy, Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers
". . . surprisingly sober and realistic dramatizations of the impact of advanced technology on guerrilla warfare. Nowlan, going beyond the mere invention of fantastic weapons, reveals a shrewd grasp of how they affect strategy and tactics. Armageddon 2419 A.D. has to be read critically today; its style is purest pulp, and its racism is patently offensive. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most imaginative works of military science fiction." -John J. Pierce, Great Themes of Science Fiction
