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What if you wake from a sleep in a mine to find your country conquered and its people hiding in forests?
Anthony Rogers enters an old mine as a surveyor and wakes almost five centuries later. It is 2419, and America is no longer the country he knows. In Philip Francis Nowlan’s science fiction adventure, the former officer finds a scattered people struggling to survive beneath the power of the Han, who command the cities and skies.
Among the forest fighters, Rogers meets Wilma Deering, a skilled scout who helps him understand this strange age. Rocket guns, jumping belts and airships reshape the battlefield. Yet the resistance needs more than weapons. Rogers brings his military experience to a struggle in which freedom depends on hidden bands learning how to fight back.
What you’ll discover
- A hero’s first adventure Meet Anthony Rogers in the tale that begins the adventures of Buck Rogers.
- A country turned strange Explore a future America where conquered cities stand apart from forests sheltering resistance fighters.
- Wilma Deering in action Follow a trained fighter and scout who joins Rogers in the struggle.
- Weapons that change warfare Discover rocket guns and belts that let fighters float above the ground.
- A soldier’s direct account See the conflict through Rogers’s eyes as he weighs weapons, tactics and survival.
Who will love it
You will love this if you enjoy early science fiction, fast adventure told in a clear voice, and the roots of Buck Rogers. It also suits readers who like resistance stories.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A stranded sleeper wakes and fights beside Wilma
- America fell to an air empire and rebuilt in secret
- One lucky rocket brings down a Han airship
- A secret raid on the Han city finds the traitors
- Rogers is made Boss and plans a bold barrage
- Old war lessons give new weapons their power
- Hardship builds a people and comfort wears one down
- A plain memoir voice carries the marvels
Who’s who
- Anthony RogersA gas investigator who sleeps for 492 years in a mine, then uses his First World War skills to help America fight the Hans.
- Wilma DeeringA sharp, brave scout of the Wyoming Gang who finds Rogers, believes his story and fights beside him.
- Big Boss HartThe portly, poker-faced leader of the Wyoming Gang, who welcomes Rogers and wants to save America from the Hans.
- Bill HearnA Camp Boss, Raid Boss and Scout Boss who loves Gerdi Mann and turns Rogers's war ideas into plans.
- Gerdi MannA red-haired girl from Wilma's camp who stays close to Bill Hearn and shares the group's hopes and fears.
- Mort GibbonsThe skilled swooper pilot who flies Rogers and his team through the dangers above the Han city.
- The HansThe Mongolian rulers of America, who live in glass cities, rely on machines and periodically raid the forest Americans.
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Armageddon—2419 A.D.
by Philip Francis Nowlan · 1928
A gas investigator wakes in a forested America in 2419, where weightless belts let girls jump fifty feet.
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What if you fell unconscious in a collapsing mine in 1927 and woke up five centuries later? That is what happens to Anthony Rogers, an investigator for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation.
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A stranded sleeper wakes and fights beside Wilma
Anthony Rogers tells his story in a preface. In December 1927 he inspects an abandoned coal mine in Pennsylvania where engineers have reported radioactive traces.
The old timbers give way, his two assistants are buried, and gas fills the shaft. Rogers loses consciousness. When he wakes, the shaft is open again, and he climbs out into a vast forest with no sign of people.
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Nowlan, Philip Francis. Armageddon—2419 A.D.. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/armageddon-2419-a-d.
Nowlan, P. F. (2026). Armageddon—2419 A.D.. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/armageddon-2419-a-d (Original work published 1928)
Nowlan, Philip Francis. Armageddon—2419 A.D.. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/armageddon-2419-a-d.
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What is Armageddon 2419 A.D. about?
It follows Anthony Rogers, who is trapped in a mine in 1927, sleeps for 492 years and wakes in a forest America ruled from the air by the Hans. He joins the Wyoming Gang and helps plan a war.
Who is Buck Rogers in this story?
The hero here is named Anthony Rogers, and his friends call him Tony. Nowlan's story later grew into the comic strip hero Buck Rogers. In the novel, he tells the story himself as a memoir.
What is a jumper belt and what is inertron?
A jumper is a belt filled with inertron, a made-up element that has no weight. It cancels most of the wearer's weight, so people can leap fifty feet, swing from branches and float safely down from great heights.
The author
Philip Francis Nowlan
1888–1940 · American science fiction writer
Philip Francis Nowlan (1888–1940) was an American science fiction writer who lived in Philadelphia. His novella Armageddon—2419 A.D. appeared in 1928, followed by The Airlords of Han in 1929. He created Buck Rogers and wrote for the Buck Rogers newspaper comic strip, which began in 1929.
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