Philip Francis Nowlan 1 hr 55 min read

Overcome by radioactive gases in a Scranton mine in 1927, Anthony Rogers wakes five hundred years later to an America crushed under the cruel Airlords of Han, and joins the war of independence.

Philip Francis Nowlan's 1929 novel is a foundational military space opera, the origin of Buck Rogers. Rousing, historic, gloriously pulpy. Read it for the very source of an icon, the sequel to 'Armageddon 2419 A.D.,' in which the sleeper-hero leads a future America's revolt against its high-tech overlords.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 55 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul