Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars Returns (Vintage Science Fiction Book 1) By Philip Francis Nowlan
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3 works of Philip Francis Nowlan Philip Francis Nowlan November 13 1888 February 1 1940 was an American science fiction author best known as the creator of Buck Rogers He was born on November 13 1888 While attending the University of Pennsylvania Nowlan was a member of The Mask and Wig Club holding significant roles in the annual productions between 1907 and 1909 After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania he worked as a newspaper columnist Nowlan was married to Theresa Junker They had ten children Philip Mary Helen Louise Theresa Mike Larry Pat John and Joe He moved to the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd and created and wrote the Buck Rogers comic strip illustrated by Dick Calkins He remained a writer on the strip until 1939 The character Buck Rogers first appeared in Nowlan s 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A. Book Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars returns ebay D as Anthony Rogers The comic strip ran for over forty years and spun off a radio series a 1939 movie serial and two television series Nowlan also wrote several other novellas for the science fiction magazines as well as the posthumously published mystery The Girl from Nowhere Works Armageddon 2419 A. PDF Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars returns policy D 1928 The Girl from Nowhere 1928 Neuauflage von 2005 The Airlords of Han 1929 The Onslaught from Venus 1929 The Time Jumpers 1934 The Prince of Mars Returns 1940 Space Guards 1940 Wings Over Tomorrow The Collected Science Fiction of Philip Francis Nowlan 2005 edited by Lee Weinstein Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars Returns Vintage Science Fiction Book 1 Used These Alternate Names Frank Phillips Phil Nowlan Philip F Nowlan Philip Francis Nowlan was an American science fiction author best known as the creator of Buck RogersAs a Buck Rogers fan since I was 5 I must unfortunately admit that the first two novels that introduced arguably the most influential and famous character of science fiction are a bit of a slog to get through though I can understand their appeal to a generation between World Wars Armageddon and its sequel Airlords of Han are written almost in their entirety as a military history text dry analysis of individual battles weapons technology strategy and so forth I was actually surprised at the level of detail in the author s descriptions of conflict between the oppressed American rebels and the Mongolian alien hybrids but it got to be injurious to the overall enjoyment of the stories The deadpan delivery of statistics and facts of war excluded the reader from being invested in those very battles and so very little seemed at stake There was absolutely no emotional investment in any character or why we should care about any of their struggles There was little hint of how war slices burns and maims the fragile bodies of those fighting the war The books are all about a great big final showdown between an evil Empire and the noble Rebels but for the most part it all plays out like a game of Stratego or Civilization. Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars Returns epub.pub But the bones are all there for great epic scifi and it was these stories and their later expansions that inspired decades of space operas and ultimately the Star Wars franchise that we know today And don t get me wrong there are enough interesting points to make these original novels worth reading for the curious fan. EBook Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars returns nano For example it is often cited that these novels are some of the prophetic of the actual future introducing 1920s audiences to technology that we take for granted today And this is very true My particular favorite among these prophecies are the drones remote controlled metal spheres of flying death that brutally bowl over enemies blast strategic points of sabotage and spy through their eye lenses that transmit live video to their operators Their appearance in Airlords is an eerie and refreshing addition to the plot. Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars Returns ebookee And though Tony Rogers is a classic hero archetype his paramour Wilma Deering is one of the earliest examples of feminine badassery She is intelligent and also brutal and savage than any of the rebel gang resistance fighters Princess Leia on steroids I also was stunned by the discussion of the Han Empire culture Though they are the only threat in both novels it is not until the sequel that we learn anything about them They are a fitting mirror of what we see happening to human societies today as technology evolves our psyche people rarely leaving their apartments and living out their lives through streaming entertainment teleconferences online shopping home delivery virtual chat and social media to the point where their minds have become autistic to normal and intimate human interaction Many readers criticize these novels for their racist depiction of Asians but this is not entirely a fair assessment The author certainly based his antagonists on the Yellow Peril popular at the time so that these novels tend to blend in with so many other Radium Age scifi stories that use the Orient as the embodiment of everything alien and counterintuitive to Western understanding In this sense the reader may lump the Buck Rogers baddies with Fu Manchu or the Singaporeans of The Golden Book of Springfield or the Empire of the Tal Majod in The Earth Tube or the Chinese from Jack London s The Unparalleled Invasion But the Han are not Asian They are simply modern They are all of us staring at our smartphones on Goodreads Nowlan throws in the face of whites who are hysterical over the dangers of the yellow race the idea that the 20th Century is just the beginning of an even greater peril that lies within the heart of the progress that Westerners embrace. EPub Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars returnship programs The author presents the Hans as what happens when a mysterious something gets into the human brain and DNA evolving them to another level Though he cleverly insinuates that some unknown extraterrestrial virus or breeding blended with the inhabitants of a Mongolian tribe in the prehistoric Himalayas to make them smarter and gravitate to industrialization and Imperialism the Han are everything the author feared in Western Europe and 20th Century America The battle between the rebels and the Hans are allegorical to the American Revolution against the British Empire to the Native Americans against the New World settlers and to the general struggle of agrarian ideals against the new mechanized culture of industrial nations These books are about the struggles of any nations or ethnicity across the world for identity and basic humanity when as Kurzweil would say the singularity is near. Kindle Armageddon 2419 ADThe Airlords of HanThe Prince of Mars returns adrianna So there is a lot to recommend the first entries into the Buck Rogers mythos to curious readers It s just that they only carry the basic and bland building blocks of epic scifi drama that Buck Rogers and its successors would become It would not be until the 1929 comic also by Nowlan that Anthony Rogers would go by the nickname Buck his arch enemy Killer Kane would be introduced as a treacherous resistance fighter who turns to crime and technologies would advance to have the rebel forces begin off earth exploration to encounter the Tigermen and other fantastic alien foes and allies The movie serials radio and TV shows and later reboot with Gil Gerard all evolve from there into the cultural phenomena we know today 232
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