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

At 14.03 01/04/99 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/1/99 1:02:57 PM EST, atomicat@geocities.com
writes:
>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.

There was even a boardgame in the old SPI's ARES magazine (maybe
somebody
remember it?) with the same "plot"; the designer admitted a strong
influence from Buck Rogers and other "Yellow Menace" pulp stories. The
game
was so-so.

Bye
Enzo De Ianni