Re: Strategic Thrust using Buck Rogers Board (was [FH] Full Diplomacy)
From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@c...>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:45:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Strategic Thrust using Buck Rogers Board (was [FH] Full Diplomacy)
ScottSaylo@aol.com wrote:
> Buck Rogers was a novel long before it was a comic book, or movie
serial. It
> had to do with a fellow who fell asleep in this century and woke up in
the
> 25th. No planet Mongo! Just about him helping fight back against the
"Manchu"
> flavored foreign invaders of North America. I'm in my fifties and
senility has
> struck and I cannot remember either the actual title nor the author.
But I
> read it on a check out of an older sci-fi book at the public library
in El
> Paso, Tx where I grew up.
It was Armageddon 2000-something or other, by Philip Nolan.
The original comic strip started out reasonbly close to
the book.