Re: Strategic Thrust using Buck Rogers Board (was [FH] Full Diplomacy)

Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:

> 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.

It is called: Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan.  My copy is
copyright
1962.  The foreword says it was originally written over thirty years
ago.  This
version has had some of the science updated.  One of the humorous things
in it, was
"Smokeless Atomic Charges". 8D

The villians are the Han of china.  There are no spaceships.  Buck
travels to the
future by being trapped in an old mine that was filled with a gas, which
kept him in
stasis until fresh air awoke him.

BTW, as far as I can tell, the "Buck Rodgers" stuff produced by TSR, is
their very
own strange variant of the Buck Rodgers setting.

Donald Hosford