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Краткое содержание: Armageddon—2419 A.D.
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A gas investigator wakes in a forested America in 2419, where weightless belts let girls jump fifty feet.
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- Слов: 25 20012 chapters
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- 1928by Philip Francis Nowlan
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Armageddon—2419 A.D. in short
Armageddon 2419 A.D. is the memoir of a man who sleeps for 492 years and wakes to an America in ruins. Han rulers hold the cities, and Americans live hidden in the forests, organized in gangs.
What Armageddon—2419 A.D. is about
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. A cave-in traps him, a strange gas holds him in suspended animation, and he climbs out into the year 2419.
Armageddon 2419 A.D. is a short novel by Philip Francis Nowlan, told as Rogers's own plain memoir. Its hero later became the comic strip star Buck Rogers. You get weightless belts, rocket guns, invisible metal and a ray that turns stone into nothing.
Для кого. 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.
The story in 8 parts
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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.
After days of wandering, he sees a youth in green backing out of the trees and firing a silent pistol. Then the youth leaps fifty feet through the air, catches a foot on a root and falls, bleeding. Rogers drags the stranger behind a tree and takes the pistol. He shoots one pursuer off a branch and destroys another in mid-leap with an explosive bullet. The rest flee.
The youth is a girl named Wilma Deering. A belt cancels most of her weight, so she can hurl herself through the air. Her attackers are Bad Bloods, an outlaw gang. Rogers learns the belt by trial, shooting ten feet into the air, flailing, before he leaps like a skater.
A hero who knows nothing, a girl he rescues and one fight open the whole future at once.
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America fell to an air empire and rebuilt in secret
Wilma gives Rogers a short history.
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One lucky rocket brings down a Han airship
One day Rogers, Wilma and two friends sit on a hillside when red rockets burst in the northern sky.
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A secret raid on the Han city finds the traitors
Victory spreads across the gangs, and hunting Han liners becomes a sport.
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Rogers is made Boss and plans a bold barrage
Back at camp, Rogers hears bad news.
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Old war lessons give new weapons their power
The book's main idea is that Americans of 2419 have wonderful tools but have forgotten how to use them together.
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Hardship builds a people and comfort wears one down
The Hans have everything.
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A plain memoir voice carries the marvels
The story is told in the first person as a memoir, written by Rogers in his old age.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Anthony Rogers A gas investigator who sleeps for 492 years in a mine, then uses his First World War skills to help America fight the Hans.
- Wilma Deering A sharp, brave scout of the Wyoming Gang who finds Rogers, believes his story and fights beside him.
- Big Boss Hart The portly, poker-faced leader of the Wyoming Gang, who welcomes Rogers and wants to save America from the Hans.
- Bill Hearn A Camp Boss, Raid Boss and Scout Boss who loves Gerdi Mann and turns Rogers's war ideas into plans.
- Gerdi Mann A red-haired girl from Wilma's camp who stays close to Bill Hearn and shares the group's hopes and fears.
- Mort Gibbons The skilled swooper pilot who flies Rogers and his team through the dangers above the Han city.
- The Hans The Mongolian rulers of America, who live in glass cities, rely on machines and periodically raid the forest Americans.
How it ends (spoiler)
The Sinsing Gang is trapped between two moving walls of fire. When some try to float or leap away, Rogers raises the barrage into the air and moves it back, and the lines close at dawn. A few escape to Nu-yok, and the Americans suffer forty-seven ground casualties and sixty-two among one swooper's crew and kite-tail force. Rogers tells Wilma that the Finger of Doom now points at the Hans and that, if they survive the struggle, they will see them gone.
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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.
Who are the Hans?
The Hans are the Mongolian rulers of America in the year 2419. They live in fifteen glass cities, use machines for every task and disintegrator rays for war, and they treat the forest Americans as wild men of the woods.
Is Armageddon 2419 A.D. easy to read?
Yes, because it is short, has brief chapters and is told in a clear first-person voice. Rogers explains each gadget in a few lines and moves quickly from fight to plan to the next adventure.
Как сослаться на это издание
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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author = {Nowlan, Philip Francis},
title = {Armageddon—2419 A.D.},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/armageddon-2419-a-d},
note = {First published 1928}
}
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