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Buck Rogers
The Airlords of Han [Annotated]
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First published March 1, 1929
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Philip Francis Nowlan
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Philip Francis Nowlan was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers
Philip Francis Nowlan was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers
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April 16, 2013
It shouldn't have taken me as long as it did to get through this, but it was just TEDIOUS. And it's a shame, because I liked the first novel to which this is a follow-up.
This and Armageddon 2419 are the original Buck Rogers stories. (Though he's called Anthony Rogers here). And the first part, I reported last year, was great! Though its age showed, it was a fascinating and exciting story about an occupied America and the scrappy rebels, living in the wilderness, striking back at the occupiers.
Unfortunately, this part gets completely weighed down with exposition. There are really only two action sequences here, but too much of the narrative is devoted to bloated descriptions of imagined future technology. Early in the novel, Nowlan actually interrupts the narrative at a high point of the action to stop and explain the futuristic radio wave technology the enemies use to operate their airships and their weapons. It makes no sense, and it goes on for pages and pages and pagezzz zzz zzz zrt . . . zt . . . huh? Sorry, I think I fell asleep.
After he returns to the action, he almost immediately stops again to discuss how the Han occupiers live in their intensely fortified mountain capital. He depicts them as lazy, indolent, completely unable to even process the fact that the people they've subjugated have the ability to hit back. And while the first book is certainly early 20th-Century "Yellow Horde" fearmongering, this follow-up goes too far. I try to be careful in calling things "racist" because it's such a cheap and easy slur these days. However, I think the term applies here. Because when you get right down to it, this is a book about a genocide.
The destruction of the Han capital (and its citizens) is related with such clinical coldness that it's hypocritically comical when Nowlan speaks of the enemy as lacking humanity. (By the way, some of the technology is eerily prescient -- the Han are essentially defeated by drone strikes!) Though Nowlan seems to be walking back his racism near the end when he suggests that the Han aren't just 25th Century Mongols, but were a race of people who were the product of Mongolian peoples commingling with aliens, the result of which being that the enemy are effeminate wimps who have no souls, so I guess it's okay to destroy them all because they're not of this earth -- and soulless anyway . . . . but there are still good Asian peoples. Oh, how gracious!
I only finished the book to be able to say I finished it. It was a long slog.
This and Armageddon 2419 are the original Buck Rogers stories. (Though he's called Anthony Rogers here). And the first part, I reported last year, was great! Though its age showed, it was a fascinating and exciting story about an occupied America and the scrappy rebels, living in the wilderness, striking back at the occupiers.
Unfortunately, this part gets completely weighed down with exposition. There are really only two action sequences here, but too much of the narrative is devoted to bloated descriptions of imagined future technology. Early in the novel, Nowlan actually interrupts the narrative at a high point of the action to stop and explain the futuristic radio wave technology the enemies use to operate their airships and their weapons. It makes no sense, and it goes on for pages and pages and pagezzz zzz zzz zrt . . . zt . . . huh? Sorry, I think I fell asleep.
After he returns to the action, he almost immediately stops again to discuss how the Han occupiers live in their intensely fortified mountain capital. He depicts them as lazy, indolent, completely unable to even process the fact that the people they've subjugated have the ability to hit back. And while the first book is certainly early 20th-Century "Yellow Horde" fearmongering, this follow-up goes too far. I try to be careful in calling things "racist" because it's such a cheap and easy slur these days. However, I think the term applies here. Because when you get right down to it, this is a book about a genocide.
The destruction of the Han capital (and its citizens) is related with such clinical coldness that it's hypocritically comical when Nowlan speaks of the enemy as lacking humanity. (By the way, some of the technology is eerily prescient -- the Han are essentially defeated by drone strikes!) Though Nowlan seems to be walking back his racism near the end when he suggests that the Han aren't just 25th Century Mongols, but were a race of people who were the product of Mongolian peoples commingling with aliens, the result of which being that the enemy are effeminate wimps who have no souls, so I guess it's okay to destroy them all because they're not of this earth -- and soulless anyway . . . . but there are still good Asian peoples. Oh, how gracious!
I only finished the book to be able to say I finished it. It was a long slog.
November 10, 2023
The second half of the short pulp science fiction novel that introduced the hero of Buck Rogers to the world, is about the same quality wise to the first half, even if the yellow peril elements are much more pronounced in this volume!
Overall I would say if you like pulp adventure type science fiction this is far from the worst example of it, even if their are better examples of it out there, I still enjoyed this from a cultural archeology standpoint and had a fun time with it!
I will say that I honestly find the one element of Buck Rogers story that has remained the same over the years,the man out of time plot, to be really compelling!
Overall I would say if you like pulp adventure type science fiction this is far from the worst example of it, even if their are better examples of it out there, I still enjoyed this from a cultural archeology standpoint and had a fun time with it!
I will say that I honestly find the one element of Buck Rogers story that has remained the same over the years,the man out of time plot, to be really compelling!
May 9, 2012
This is the follow-up volume to Armageddon 2419 A.D., the story that introduced Anthony Rogers--who later became known as Buck Rogers--to the world. While I didn't quite enjoy it as much as the first Rogers story, the second half more than makes up for a lackluster beginning.
The book opens with the continuing struggle of the techno-tribal Americans versus the diabolical Han, technologically advanced Mongolians and the dominant race of 25th century Earth. While there's plenty of action in these early sequences, the war scenes are described in a bloodless, clinical manner that robs them of much of their excitement. This bland description of (invariably successful) tactics is a problem that the later half of the first book shared. Things become even worse when the author takes a mystifying two chapter break right in the middle of an air combat scene to describe "ultron" and "inertron" technology in detail. There's one chapter for the American's technology, and one for the Han's equipment. I doubt most readers are as interested in the author's technobabble as Nowlan himself was, and this digression harms the flow of the story.
Fortunately, things quickly pick up after this sidetrack. In a rare moment of fallibility, Rogers's cockiness leads to him being captured by the Han and taken to their capital city, where he serves as both a prisoner of war and an honored guest to his decadent, soft captors. This portion of the story finally gives a face to the enemy. While Armageddon 2419 A.D. was fairly light on the racism despite a Yellow Peril-era premise, it appears all that was saved up for the sequel. Repeatedly we're told how decadent and soft and corrupt the Mongolians are, unlike the noble and virile (and apparently minority-free) Americans. (Ironically, I'd trade 25th century American life for a Han lifestyle in an instant. They've got luxurious housing, a welfare system, e-commerce, telecommuting, undemanding jobs, and loose women. Where do I sign up?) We even learn that the Han aren't quite real Mongolians, but actually half-alien hybrids resulting from a space ship crashing in Tibet. I guess that makes their eventual genocide at the hands of square-jawed, white-bread Americans OK, then!
Some old-fashioned thinking aside, the second half of the story is fun and exciting. Rogers makes a daring escape from the Han with the assistance of remote-controlled explosive drones. Why these remarkably versatile killer drones weren't used by the Americans in previous battles was unclear to me, but their very presence (along with the telecommuting and e-commerce mentioned previously) is pretty astonishing for a story written in 1929. Rogers's escape is also excitingly rendered and much less dispassionately described than the mass battles from the first half of the book.
The American's eventual victory seems a little too easily won, but the two volume series comes to a satisfying conclusion. Parts of the story will feel--understandably--creaky and outdated to a modern audience, but the pulp action is exciting and the futurism genuinely impressive. Both books are worth a read to pulp fiction fans and those interested in learning more about an classic American icon.
This public domain e-book is available free from the Project Gutenberg website.
The book opens with the continuing struggle of the techno-tribal Americans versus the diabolical Han, technologically advanced Mongolians and the dominant race of 25th century Earth. While there's plenty of action in these early sequences, the war scenes are described in a bloodless, clinical manner that robs them of much of their excitement. This bland description of (invariably successful) tactics is a problem that the later half of the first book shared. Things become even worse when the author takes a mystifying two chapter break right in the middle of an air combat scene to describe "ultron" and "inertron" technology in detail. There's one chapter for the American's technology, and one for the Han's equipment. I doubt most readers are as interested in the author's technobabble as Nowlan himself was, and this digression harms the flow of the story.
Fortunately, things quickly pick up after this sidetrack. In a rare moment of fallibility, Rogers's cockiness leads to him being captured by the Han and taken to their capital city, where he serves as both a prisoner of war and an honored guest to his decadent, soft captors. This portion of the story finally gives a face to the enemy. While Armageddon 2419 A.D. was fairly light on the racism despite a Yellow Peril-era premise, it appears all that was saved up for the sequel. Repeatedly we're told how decadent and soft and corrupt the Mongolians are, unlike the noble and virile (and apparently minority-free) Americans. (Ironically, I'd trade 25th century American life for a Han lifestyle in an instant. They've got luxurious housing, a welfare system, e-commerce, telecommuting, undemanding jobs, and loose women. Where do I sign up?) We even learn that the Han aren't quite real Mongolians, but actually half-alien hybrids resulting from a space ship crashing in Tibet. I guess that makes their eventual genocide at the hands of square-jawed, white-bread Americans OK, then!
Some old-fashioned thinking aside, the second half of the story is fun and exciting. Rogers makes a daring escape from the Han with the assistance of remote-controlled explosive drones. Why these remarkably versatile killer drones weren't used by the Americans in previous battles was unclear to me, but their very presence (along with the telecommuting and e-commerce mentioned previously) is pretty astonishing for a story written in 1929. Rogers's escape is also excitingly rendered and much less dispassionately described than the mass battles from the first half of the book.
The American's eventual victory seems a little too easily won, but the two volume series comes to a satisfying conclusion. Parts of the story will feel--understandably--creaky and outdated to a modern audience, but the pulp action is exciting and the futurism genuinely impressive. Both books are worth a read to pulp fiction fans and those interested in learning more about an classic American icon.
This public domain e-book is available free from the Project Gutenberg website.
March 28, 2009
I read this as a palate-cleanser, so it's ironic that the very first page left a sour taste in the mouth - the airlords are "fierce Mongolians, who, as scientists now contend, had in their blood a taint not of the earth". There are two extremely dull chapters that are essentially essays describing the technology of each side, but most of the book is the usual meticulously-described Antony Rogers derring-do...
By the end, though, you realise that Rogers is leading a war of genocide - his purpose is to eradicate every man, woman and child of the Han from the face of the Earth, destroying their cities, burying them beneath rock, murdering them mercilessly.
The narrator acknowledges this awful bloodthirstiness, but explains it to be warranted by the evil nature of the Hans. Norman Spinrad once wrote a book - The Iron Dream - as if by an alternative universe Hitler who found his way to America and science fiction. I haven't read it yet, but it's hard to imagine it sticks more closely to Hitler's ethos than this book does.
I'm not one for praising science fiction for predicting the future - when it happens it's nice, and when it doesn't people take it to be a failing of the genre, and either way writers are often just popularising scientists' ideas - but Nowlan's description of the Hans at work at home, before their computer screens, ordering their new trousers with a button press, seems remarkably prescient of the internet age.
By the end, though, you realise that Rogers is leading a war of genocide - his purpose is to eradicate every man, woman and child of the Han from the face of the Earth, destroying their cities, burying them beneath rock, murdering them mercilessly.
The narrator acknowledges this awful bloodthirstiness, but explains it to be warranted by the evil nature of the Hans. Norman Spinrad once wrote a book - The Iron Dream - as if by an alternative universe Hitler who found his way to America and science fiction. I haven't read it yet, but it's hard to imagine it sticks more closely to Hitler's ethos than this book does.
I'm not one for praising science fiction for predicting the future - when it happens it's nice, and when it doesn't people take it to be a failing of the genre, and either way writers are often just popularising scientists' ideas - but Nowlan's description of the Hans at work at home, before their computer screens, ordering their new trousers with a button press, seems remarkably prescient of the internet age.
September 30, 2017
Yeah so, you don’t need to read this. Seriously. There is no redeeming quality here and it actually somewhat ruins your enjoyment of the first novel. Nowlan takes all goodwill engendered from the first novel and just drives it into the ground. I really don’t think he had any idea where to take the story from here so he just continued with the the battle for independence alluded to in the first novel, padded generously with technical observation. There are two chapters early on that are solely dedicated to describing Han and American technology, soon after that Rogers is captured and spends the next six chapters as a passive observer in a Han city. That’s over half the book that honestly could have been in an appendix. Then when Rogers finally returns to action at the end, all the excitement of the battle is over, victory for the Americans is practically a foregone conclusion, theres nothing left to do but murder every remaining Han man, woman and child in genocidal glee. Nowlan attempts to walk back the racism of it all a bit in the last chapter (including a half-hearted suggestion that the Han might really be aliens. Really? Why not fully commit to that idea and state it up front at the beginning of the novel? It would have made the whole damn thing a lot less racist) but it ends up making it even worse, coming off like an apology for genocide.
March 15, 2021
Really racist.
I read this short series because I was interested in the origins of George Lucas' Star Wars, which drew elements from Flash Gordon as well as Buck Rogers, which in turn originated with the Anthony Rogers novellas of Phillip Francis Nowlan.
The first book, Armageddon 2419, was fairly interesting with its "airships, phlanged ray guns and bubble helmet jumpsuits" style. It only made passing references to Mongols or a race of "Yellow" men, but it mostly concerned itself with descriptions of future society and tech of the surviving Americans.
This book gives science fiction and futurism a back seat and mostly rants about how it's completely justified, if not essential, for Anthony Rogers to lead his gang on a genocidal conquest to wipe out the entire Han race, who may not even be fully human, possibly being degraded by evil alien stock. It was not just unpleasant to read from a moral standpoint, but utterly boring as a science fiction fan.
Anthony Rogers is an American veteran of WWI, but the book has nothing bad to say against Germans or Ottoman Turks or any enemy that actually fought the U.S. in WWI, or any other actual war for that matter. It is fully in line with the bizarre early 20th Century American East Asian bigotry that showed through in villains like Fu Manchu, Ming the Merciless, Shiwan Khan, etc.
I read this short series because I was interested in the origins of George Lucas' Star Wars, which drew elements from Flash Gordon as well as Buck Rogers, which in turn originated with the Anthony Rogers novellas of Phillip Francis Nowlan.
The first book, Armageddon 2419, was fairly interesting with its "airships, phlanged ray guns and bubble helmet jumpsuits" style. It only made passing references to Mongols or a race of "Yellow" men, but it mostly concerned itself with descriptions of future society and tech of the surviving Americans.
This book gives science fiction and futurism a back seat and mostly rants about how it's completely justified, if not essential, for Anthony Rogers to lead his gang on a genocidal conquest to wipe out the entire Han race, who may not even be fully human, possibly being degraded by evil alien stock. It was not just unpleasant to read from a moral standpoint, but utterly boring as a science fiction fan.
Anthony Rogers is an American veteran of WWI, but the book has nothing bad to say against Germans or Ottoman Turks or any enemy that actually fought the U.S. in WWI, or any other actual war for that matter. It is fully in line with the bizarre early 20th Century American East Asian bigotry that showed through in villains like Fu Manchu, Ming the Merciless, Shiwan Khan, etc.
January 20, 2014
Ah, Golden Age SF! If you love it, you'll probably enjoy this book (and its very necessary prequel, Armageddon 2419 A.D.). If you've never read/enjoyed any pulp SF--and particularly if you don't cope well with literature from more "backward" eras (in this case, the 1920s)--you'll probably find all kinds of things to hate here, from the very expository style of narration to the paragraphs full of technobabble to the attitude toward the "yellow" menace (hybrid aliens/Asians). Also, if you're expecting to read a story about the "Buck Rogers" made famous in film and TV, you'll be disappointed to find that this book's only connection to the said "Buck Rogers" is the hero's last name and his 500-year sleep. If you can handle all that, buckle on your inertron belt and prepare for a fun ride.
January 29, 2019
The previous book, Armageddon 2419 AD, had a big dose of Yellow Peril, but was generally an exciting story. This book relishes the genocide of the Han race, murdering civilians with glee whether individually or wholesale (with atomic bombs). A thoroughly disgusting book.
Here is a quote from the tail end, after the glorious destruction of the city Lo-Tan:
The chapter is titled "Victory".
I wish I had not read this book.
Here is a quote from the tail end, after the glorious destruction of the city Lo-Tan:
...though it was several years before one by one their remaining cities were destroyed and their populations hunted down, thus completing the reclamation of America and inaugurating the most glorious and noble era of scientific civilization in the history of the American race.
The chapter is titled "Victory".
I wish I had not read this book.
July 10, 2013
Just because it is visionary speculative fiction doesn't make it actually interesting...
I was rather amused at the very last "really I'm not a racist" chapter in which it is revealed [not really much of a spoiler to everything else in the plot, as if you didn't know how the plot would end up anyway] that the Hans are aliens and that Earthly black and yellow races are as noble as white. Heh.
I was rather amused at the very last "really I'm not a racist" chapter in which it is revealed [not really much of a spoiler to everything else in the plot, as if you didn't know how the plot would end up anyway] that the Hans are aliens and that Earthly black and yellow races are as noble as white. Heh.
January 23, 2019
A note of warning: there are statements which may spoil the end of the book, though they are not specific to any particular events.
A quarter of the way into this sequel to Armageddon 2419 A.D., Nowlan gives an info dump on the science of the Han empire and then the American gangs. It turns out the future owes everything to Nikolai Tesla, Neils Bohr and Marie Curie. The serious techs borrow heavily from the works of these three along with Nowlan's own positing that electrons are made up of sub-electrons, which themselves are made up of still more basic particles called ultrons. He talks a lot about radiation and it's many uses, but no mention protons or neutrons being made up of baser particles. In fact I get the feel that he might think that these particles are themselves made up of electrons. Immediately after this, he explains how ultrons can be used for television, including x-ray and telescopic views. I am led to conclude that Nowlan was very up on the science of his day, including the cutting edge science of things such as television nearly a decade before it was available to consumers. Incidentally, Nowlan predicted that tv would lead to people never leaving their house unless they absolutely had to, and would even be used for shopping in s system which he describes in a way that sounds very similar to Amazon.
Nowlan uses some terminology in the book which bothers me. He uses the terms "white race" and "yellow race" interchangeably with "American race" and "Han" or "Han race" respectively. He actually did this once or twice in the first book but ni that book he almost exclusively called them the American gangs and the Han Empire. This go through, he is very clear that he does mean race. At some point while recounting how the Han empire came into being, he mentions Eugenics and that it failed because of their lack of moral fiber, thus implying that it could succeed if someone "better" were doing it. He does mention that upon meeting the Hans that theya re not indeed yellow and lack the "high cheek bones" of Asians and look more white than the American gangs. Later, and totally as an aside towards the end, he mentions that it turns out that the Han are human-alien hybrids and that theya re actually descended from teh Tibetans. For the American gangs I thought he midght just be stating a descriptive term since the gangs are very regional and the whole of the first book and most of the second book take place in the area of Pennsylvania and New York and that perhaps in the future or in the writers experience, he thought African-Americans live in the South. Later in the book they meet gangs from Atlanta and then all parts of America. Nowlan means white. This becomes abundantly clear in the last chapter when he describes Rogers traveling the world after the Han empire has fallen, first to visit the "dark Caucasoids" of India and finally the "Blacks of Africa" which he states were viewed as dim-witted in his time but now turned out to be the smartest of them all. Does this mean he doesn't think they are now or that the people of his day did not think it and would later be proved wrong? This is really only addressed in a part of a sentence at the end.
Nowlan also always refers to the gang's military as "men and girls". I think it pans out that he uses girls to refer to unmarried women who have actually completed their schooling. Nowlan has no problem with Rogers and his wife, WIlma, fighting along side one another, though every single time Rogers commands her to stay out of the fight, and every single time she ignores him. He makes a point of saying numerous times that married men are welcomed whole-heartedly into the military forces, but only unmarried women. In the first book and the beginning of this book, the girls are relegated to being scouts, but when Wilma has to fight she is capable of handling herself. Nowlan never explicitly states that the married women are staying with the children or doing other tasks, it could be that I am reading too much into this. Perhaps it goes back to the first book where Rogers thinks WIlma is a boy of 14 or 15 the first time he meets her, and cna't tell she is a girl until he sees her face, and indeed that only one girl in the whole outfit is worth commenting on as being vuluptuous (and must therefore be of Irish descent) and explicitly states none of the other woem are curvy. Is Nowlan allowing girls into the military and his main characters personal life because they are stand-ins for boys? 1920s and 30s America was not friendly to homosexuals.
I'm not a cultural historian, so I don't know if the language used by Nowlan was acceptable then but not by my standards some 90 years after publication. I would like to think that the reason there is not a third book in the series is because the community which bought his books didn't like the terminology and ideas behind them, especially the notions of race. But, I suspect it is because the second book is just not as good as the first book.
A quarter of the way into this sequel to Armageddon 2419 A.D., Nowlan gives an info dump on the science of the Han empire and then the American gangs. It turns out the future owes everything to Nikolai Tesla, Neils Bohr and Marie Curie. The serious techs borrow heavily from the works of these three along with Nowlan's own positing that electrons are made up of sub-electrons, which themselves are made up of still more basic particles called ultrons. He talks a lot about radiation and it's many uses, but no mention protons or neutrons being made up of baser particles. In fact I get the feel that he might think that these particles are themselves made up of electrons. Immediately after this, he explains how ultrons can be used for television, including x-ray and telescopic views. I am led to conclude that Nowlan was very up on the science of his day, including the cutting edge science of things such as television nearly a decade before it was available to consumers. Incidentally, Nowlan predicted that tv would lead to people never leaving their house unless they absolutely had to, and would even be used for shopping in s system which he describes in a way that sounds very similar to Amazon.
Nowlan uses some terminology in the book which bothers me. He uses the terms "white race" and "yellow race" interchangeably with "American race" and "Han" or "Han race" respectively. He actually did this once or twice in the first book but ni that book he almost exclusively called them the American gangs and the Han Empire. This go through, he is very clear that he does mean race. At some point while recounting how the Han empire came into being, he mentions Eugenics and that it failed because of their lack of moral fiber, thus implying that it could succeed if someone "better" were doing it. He does mention that upon meeting the Hans that theya re not indeed yellow and lack the "high cheek bones" of Asians and look more white than the American gangs. Later, and totally as an aside towards the end, he mentions that it turns out that the Han are human-alien hybrids and that theya re actually descended from teh Tibetans. For the American gangs I thought he midght just be stating a descriptive term since the gangs are very regional and the whole of the first book and most of the second book take place in the area of Pennsylvania and New York and that perhaps in the future or in the writers experience, he thought African-Americans live in the South. Later in the book they meet gangs from Atlanta and then all parts of America. Nowlan means white. This becomes abundantly clear in the last chapter when he describes Rogers traveling the world after the Han empire has fallen, first to visit the "dark Caucasoids" of India and finally the "Blacks of Africa" which he states were viewed as dim-witted in his time but now turned out to be the smartest of them all. Does this mean he doesn't think they are now or that the people of his day did not think it and would later be proved wrong? This is really only addressed in a part of a sentence at the end.
Nowlan also always refers to the gang's military as "men and girls". I think it pans out that he uses girls to refer to unmarried women who have actually completed their schooling. Nowlan has no problem with Rogers and his wife, WIlma, fighting along side one another, though every single time Rogers commands her to stay out of the fight, and every single time she ignores him. He makes a point of saying numerous times that married men are welcomed whole-heartedly into the military forces, but only unmarried women. In the first book and the beginning of this book, the girls are relegated to being scouts, but when Wilma has to fight she is capable of handling herself. Nowlan never explicitly states that the married women are staying with the children or doing other tasks, it could be that I am reading too much into this. Perhaps it goes back to the first book where Rogers thinks WIlma is a boy of 14 or 15 the first time he meets her, and cna't tell she is a girl until he sees her face, and indeed that only one girl in the whole outfit is worth commenting on as being vuluptuous (and must therefore be of Irish descent) and explicitly states none of the other woem are curvy. Is Nowlan allowing girls into the military and his main characters personal life because they are stand-ins for boys? 1920s and 30s America was not friendly to homosexuals.
I'm not a cultural historian, so I don't know if the language used by Nowlan was acceptable then but not by my standards some 90 years after publication. I would like to think that the reason there is not a third book in the series is because the community which bought his books didn't like the terminology and ideas behind them, especially the notions of race. But, I suspect it is because the second book is just not as good as the first book.
April 14, 2024
If you are interested in the origins of the character of Buck Rogers, this (along with its predecessor, Armageddon 2419 A. D.) are well worth a read. This second (short) novella picks up right where the other ended. And it is not nearly as strong as the first.
One can admire author Nowlan's ingenuity in inventing a complex, comprehensive, and expansive system of future technologies, but the first half of the novella comes to a screeching halt for a LONG explanation of each of those technologies and the fictional, but coherent "science" behind them.
Excise this material to an appendix, and what remains feels like just a few more action chapters that better belonged in the none-too-long Armageddon 2419 A.D. I wonder if the popularity of the first installment caused this to be rushed into print without benefit of much needed editorial attention.
Get past that and the narrative started in the first novella comes to a swift close with the victory of the oppressed Americans over their Mongolian (Han) overlords.
Taking the two novellas together and you pretty much get the complete origin story and pre-history of a character that evolved into the more familiar concept of Buck Rogers - in comic strips, radio, movie serials, and onward. It is a pre-history that is pretty much never referred to again in subsequent developments of the character and his universe. Beyond the idea of a twentieth century man, trapped in suspended animation for 500 years, and awakened to new adventures in the twenty-fifth, this is all largely irrelevant to the Buck Rogers we have come to know. (And the character is named Anthony Rogers, never Buck, in these novellas.)
READERS BEWARE: Both novels are very much of a piece with societal norms and the writing of its time (1929). They are as much in the "Yellow Peril" genre (think of Sax Rohmer's early Fu Manchu series) as they are in SciFi. Its racial stereotypes will be jarring and no doubt disqualifying to many readers, approaching them with present day sensibilities. But to be fair to Nowlin, he goes to the trouble of distinguishing the "good" and human Mongolians from the evil Han race that the white saviors virtually exterminate (who are the result of an alien race's cross-breeding). And he even provides some passing praise for the "noble" non-white human races - an uncharacteristically progressive view for the times, albeit VERY slight. Still, there is no escaping the resonances of the prevailing racism of the times. Even human versus alien does not hide the underlying theme of a genocidal struggle (from both side of the conflict.)
And both novellas are (for their time) remarkably progressive in the area of gender-equality: the American "gangs" are made up of men and women warriors fighting side-by-side and Wilma enjoys an equal rank within the military hierarchy as any of the male "bosses." The degradation of women in the decadent Han society is not deeply explored, but is strongly present and offers a substantial point of contrast between the two sides in the conflict.
Still, while Wilma Deering is as ferocious and capable a combatant as Rogers, she does still seem to always be fainting once the crisis is past.
One can admire author Nowlan's ingenuity in inventing a complex, comprehensive, and expansive system of future technologies, but the first half of the novella comes to a screeching halt for a LONG explanation of each of those technologies and the fictional, but coherent "science" behind them.
Excise this material to an appendix, and what remains feels like just a few more action chapters that better belonged in the none-too-long Armageddon 2419 A.D. I wonder if the popularity of the first installment caused this to be rushed into print without benefit of much needed editorial attention.
Get past that and the narrative started in the first novella comes to a swift close with the victory of the oppressed Americans over their Mongolian (Han) overlords.
Taking the two novellas together and you pretty much get the complete origin story and pre-history of a character that evolved into the more familiar concept of Buck Rogers - in comic strips, radio, movie serials, and onward. It is a pre-history that is pretty much never referred to again in subsequent developments of the character and his universe. Beyond the idea of a twentieth century man, trapped in suspended animation for 500 years, and awakened to new adventures in the twenty-fifth, this is all largely irrelevant to the Buck Rogers we have come to know. (And the character is named Anthony Rogers, never Buck, in these novellas.)
READERS BEWARE: Both novels are very much of a piece with societal norms and the writing of its time (1929). They are as much in the "Yellow Peril" genre (think of Sax Rohmer's early Fu Manchu series) as they are in SciFi. Its racial stereotypes will be jarring and no doubt disqualifying to many readers, approaching them with present day sensibilities. But to be fair to Nowlin, he goes to the trouble of distinguishing the "good" and human Mongolians from the evil Han race that the white saviors virtually exterminate (who are the result of an alien race's cross-breeding). And he even provides some passing praise for the "noble" non-white human races - an uncharacteristically progressive view for the times, albeit VERY slight. Still, there is no escaping the resonances of the prevailing racism of the times. Even human versus alien does not hide the underlying theme of a genocidal struggle (from both side of the conflict.)
And both novellas are (for their time) remarkably progressive in the area of gender-equality: the American "gangs" are made up of men and women warriors fighting side-by-side and Wilma enjoys an equal rank within the military hierarchy as any of the male "bosses." The degradation of women in the decadent Han society is not deeply explored, but is strongly present and offers a substantial point of contrast between the two sides in the conflict.
Still, while Wilma Deering is as ferocious and capable a combatant as Rogers, she does still seem to always be fainting once the crisis is past.
March 1, 2018
This is the second of the books that inspired the Buck Rogers franchise in comic strips, movies, tv, and radio. The first was Armageddon 2419 A.D.
Both books are best read, I think, out of curiosity about where Buck Rogers came from. They aren’t the greatest of science fiction writing, although they are fun and very pulpy — they were both originally published in Amazing Stories magazine.
The story picks up after the story in Armageddon 2419 A.D. The Han have ruled what had been America for centuries. But their empire is in trouble, due to their own decline and due to the enduring moral and spiritual virtues of the American people. And the Americans get a big shot in the arm from Anthony Rogers, now awakened from a long, time-traveling-like sleep. Rogers (later renamed Buck in the comics and serials to come) was trapped in a mine cave-in in 1927 and kept in suspended animation by radioactive gas released in the cave-in.
The world that Rogers awakens to is an extension of the world he left, with Russia and China, mainly China having become an overwhelming imperial force.
The conflict between the resurgent Americans, now organized into allied tribes, and the Han (the Chinese lords) is defined by moral differences. The Han are a degraded race. Once their imperial superiority was established, they relied on their advantage to live lives of self-indulgence, leading to moral and physical decay. They are weak, morally and physically, and unequipped for the competition that comes from the rebellious spirit of the Americans.
The 25th century is all about war — to be fair, a war of rebellion of America against the empire of the Han. The Han are out-technologied, out-strategized, out-couraged, and just plain outed as weak, immoral, and arrogant. An empire in steep decline.
Anthony Rogers is a warrior-strategist, bringing the courage, cunning, and moral superiority of the 20th century to ally with the Americans of the 25th, inspiring them and maybe lighting a stronger fire under that same moral superiority that endured through subjection to the Han empire for centuries.
It’s not deep, there’s not a whole lot of character development, but then again, that’s not what this is about. It’s fun, and it’s a pretty big helping of chest-thumping.
There’s an interesting twist at the end. It turns out the Han might not be the Chinese after all. They may actually be conquerers of the Chinese, with an extraterrestrial origin. I’d love to know the thinking behind why this twist was thrown in at the very end.
Fun reading is you’re a fan of Buck Rogers.
Both books are best read, I think, out of curiosity about where Buck Rogers came from. They aren’t the greatest of science fiction writing, although they are fun and very pulpy — they were both originally published in Amazing Stories magazine.
The story picks up after the story in Armageddon 2419 A.D. The Han have ruled what had been America for centuries. But their empire is in trouble, due to their own decline and due to the enduring moral and spiritual virtues of the American people. And the Americans get a big shot in the arm from Anthony Rogers, now awakened from a long, time-traveling-like sleep. Rogers (later renamed Buck in the comics and serials to come) was trapped in a mine cave-in in 1927 and kept in suspended animation by radioactive gas released in the cave-in.
The world that Rogers awakens to is an extension of the world he left, with Russia and China, mainly China having become an overwhelming imperial force.
The conflict between the resurgent Americans, now organized into allied tribes, and the Han (the Chinese lords) is defined by moral differences. The Han are a degraded race. Once their imperial superiority was established, they relied on their advantage to live lives of self-indulgence, leading to moral and physical decay. They are weak, morally and physically, and unequipped for the competition that comes from the rebellious spirit of the Americans.
The 25th century is all about war — to be fair, a war of rebellion of America against the empire of the Han. The Han are out-technologied, out-strategized, out-couraged, and just plain outed as weak, immoral, and arrogant. An empire in steep decline.
Anthony Rogers is a warrior-strategist, bringing the courage, cunning, and moral superiority of the 20th century to ally with the Americans of the 25th, inspiring them and maybe lighting a stronger fire under that same moral superiority that endured through subjection to the Han empire for centuries.
It’s not deep, there’s not a whole lot of character development, but then again, that’s not what this is about. It’s fun, and it’s a pretty big helping of chest-thumping.
There’s an interesting twist at the end. It turns out the Han might not be the Chinese after all. They may actually be conquerers of the Chinese, with an extraterrestrial origin. I’d love to know the thinking behind why this twist was thrown in at the very end.
Fun reading is you’re a fan of Buck Rogers.
May 8, 2017
Librivox Prologue: I listened to this book off of the Librivox website. Librivox volunteers turn public domain books into audio books and make them freely available. This recording, like every recording I have listened to via Librivox, was superbly voiced.
Buck Rogers Prologue: I randomly came across the fact that some consider this to be a “Buck Rogers” book even though the main character is Anthony Rogers. This caught my attention because the book made me think of the Buck Rogers story while I was reading it so I took 2 minutes and checked Wikipedia which said “The characters and setting [of Armageddon 2419 A.D. and the Airlords of Han] eventually evolved into Buck Rogers”.
The Review:
This book was written in 1928 and is the sequel/conclusion to Armageddon 2419 A.D. In Armageddon, Anthony Rogers, awakes from suspended animation in 2419 where he quickly rises to a position of leadership among what remains of America. America has been ruled by in “the Han” for hundreds of years with rebellious Americans relegated to hiding in woods and waging guerilla war. I don’t remember any specifics but I understood “the Han” to refer primarily to the Chinese and Mongolians, although the author greatly emphasizes the Mongolian side of that equation.
Armageddon 2419 had to be read as fun science fiction from the past or the racism and sexism in it would have made it impossible to enjoy. In Airlords Anthony Rogers is taken captive by the Hans and is wife actually takes over his leadership role in the rebellion. Anthony then makes endless observations about the moral inferiority of Han race, so sexism takes a step back but racism steps up in this book. Still, it is the condescending racism of someone convinced of their own moral superiority and not actual hate, so, if you are able to ignore that, this book too is a fun piece of historical science fiction. It is particularly interesting to compare the technological developments of the book to real life. It was stunning when drone warfare showed up in this book from 1928.
Bottom line, this book is a fun read if you can overlook the superiority complex of the main character.
Buck Rogers Prologue: I randomly came across the fact that some consider this to be a “Buck Rogers” book even though the main character is Anthony Rogers. This caught my attention because the book made me think of the Buck Rogers story while I was reading it so I took 2 minutes and checked Wikipedia which said “The characters and setting [of Armageddon 2419 A.D. and the Airlords of Han] eventually evolved into Buck Rogers”.
The Review:
This book was written in 1928 and is the sequel/conclusion to Armageddon 2419 A.D. In Armageddon, Anthony Rogers, awakes from suspended animation in 2419 where he quickly rises to a position of leadership among what remains of America. America has been ruled by in “the Han” for hundreds of years with rebellious Americans relegated to hiding in woods and waging guerilla war. I don’t remember any specifics but I understood “the Han” to refer primarily to the Chinese and Mongolians, although the author greatly emphasizes the Mongolian side of that equation.
Armageddon 2419 had to be read as fun science fiction from the past or the racism and sexism in it would have made it impossible to enjoy. In Airlords Anthony Rogers is taken captive by the Hans and is wife actually takes over his leadership role in the rebellion. Anthony then makes endless observations about the moral inferiority of Han race, so sexism takes a step back but racism steps up in this book. Still, it is the condescending racism of someone convinced of their own moral superiority and not actual hate, so, if you are able to ignore that, this book too is a fun piece of historical science fiction. It is particularly interesting to compare the technological developments of the book to real life. It was stunning when drone warfare showed up in this book from 1928.
Bottom line, this book is a fun read if you can overlook the superiority complex of the main character.
October 6, 2025
Anthony "Buck" Rogers continues his story, six months after the events in "Armageddon-2419 A.D." The Second War of Independence is now in full swing with Americans in a position of strength against their former Han overlords who are now struggling to defend their fifteen monstrous North American cities from attack. "Airlords of the Han" (1928) has a much bleaker dystopian vision, though still with a surface lens of pulp action story, than its predecessor, which I'll get to shortly.
The Hans find they can't just eliminate Americans from the air anymore because the American attackers have their roving Gangs always on the move in the forests and mountains with personal inertron shields and the mobile rockets Rogers taught them to bring down Han ships.
While the two sides seem to be in a stalemate of sorts, the Hans unable to destroy the mobile American attackers but the Americans likewise unable to penetrate the Han strongholds, both sides are also making technological and tactical advances that will shape the war further.
Rogers ends up captured and, while meeting the Han supreme leader San-Lan, we get a better description of the Hans themselves and an eyewitness view of the beautiful Han capital city of Lo-Tan, way up in the Rocky Mountains. Nowlan's description of Han society reminded me of Huxley's vision from "Brave New World" and it is likely both were influenced by HG Wells' work just prior to both writings. Dystopian visions in the face of such recent technological advances, WWI, the new global threats rising in Asia, socialist political upheavals in Russia and fascist ones in Europe, and the eugenics movement in the western world created a bubbling cauldron for writers across the sci-fi genre spectrum.
Then things really get nuts.
Verdict: An interesting science fiction tale, tougher to read pacing-wise than its predecessor and with an ending that is quite abrupt, but whatever. Buck Rogers is awesome.
Jeff's Rating: 4 / 5 (Very Good)
movie rating if made into a movie: PG
The Hans find they can't just eliminate Americans from the air anymore because the American attackers have their roving Gangs always on the move in the forests and mountains with personal inertron shields and the mobile rockets Rogers taught them to bring down Han ships.
While the two sides seem to be in a stalemate of sorts, the Hans unable to destroy the mobile American attackers but the Americans likewise unable to penetrate the Han strongholds, both sides are also making technological and tactical advances that will shape the war further.
Rogers ends up captured and, while meeting the Han supreme leader San-Lan, we get a better description of the Hans themselves and an eyewitness view of the beautiful Han capital city of Lo-Tan, way up in the Rocky Mountains. Nowlan's description of Han society reminded me of Huxley's vision from "Brave New World" and it is likely both were influenced by HG Wells' work just prior to both writings. Dystopian visions in the face of such recent technological advances, WWI, the new global threats rising in Asia, socialist political upheavals in Russia and fascist ones in Europe, and the eugenics movement in the western world created a bubbling cauldron for writers across the sci-fi genre spectrum.
Then things really get nuts.
Verdict: An interesting science fiction tale, tougher to read pacing-wise than its predecessor and with an ending that is quite abrupt, but whatever. Buck Rogers is awesome.
Jeff's Rating: 4 / 5 (Very Good)
movie rating if made into a movie: PG
April 1, 2026
I was introduced to the first novel, "Armageddon 2419" through a reprint of Hugo Gernsback's 1961 anthology of "Amazing Stories." I just finished the second novel in the series, "The Airlords of Han," featuring the character of Anthony "Buck" Rogers novels, also first published in a 1929 issue of "Amazing Stories." It still amazes me that the novels bear no resemblance to the comics or TV show of that character. In fact he is not called "Buck" at all in either novel.
This novel is best read after the initial, "Armageddon 2419" to understand the societal structure of the 25th century. This story expands on the back history of the Hans, their origin and their breeding. Many thought provoking tidbits throughout. By modern standards, the enemy is racially stereotyped but we're talking about the future so I considered it speculation.
The author makes a convincing explanation of the science which is integral to the plot but not the story. Unfortunately, the novel bogs down in chapters IV and V, "Han Electrono-Ray Science" and "American Ultronic Science." The technological detail of these chapters do have merit for those who like such detail but for me, their scanning over was sufficient.
The character development is scant. Even Wilma Deering, his wife, is thinly defined. Most of the main characters play their part but little emotion is expressed.
Overall, I am very glad I read "Airlords of Han" because of its place in science fiction history, the character of "Rogers" and the adventure of it all. Many people are of the belief that all pulp adventures were poorly written. I would say, "poorly" is different for each person. I found "Airlords of Han" to be fast paced, full of reasonable plot development, characters who are defined for what they do rather than who they are, and to me, simply enjoyable.
This novel is best read after the initial, "Armageddon 2419" to understand the societal structure of the 25th century. This story expands on the back history of the Hans, their origin and their breeding. Many thought provoking tidbits throughout. By modern standards, the enemy is racially stereotyped but we're talking about the future so I considered it speculation.
The author makes a convincing explanation of the science which is integral to the plot but not the story. Unfortunately, the novel bogs down in chapters IV and V, "Han Electrono-Ray Science" and "American Ultronic Science." The technological detail of these chapters do have merit for those who like such detail but for me, their scanning over was sufficient.
The character development is scant. Even Wilma Deering, his wife, is thinly defined. Most of the main characters play their part but little emotion is expressed.
Overall, I am very glad I read "Airlords of Han" because of its place in science fiction history, the character of "Rogers" and the adventure of it all. Many people are of the belief that all pulp adventures were poorly written. I would say, "poorly" is different for each person. I found "Airlords of Han" to be fast paced, full of reasonable plot development, characters who are defined for what they do rather than who they are, and to me, simply enjoyable.
June 26, 2021
The second of the Amazing Stories novellas that introduced Buck Rogers. Amazing for both it's creating the post-apocalyptic/military sci-fi subgenre, but also being an unintentional exposé of American racism. Rogers is captured by the Han, Mongolians who have conquered America, and live in high tech, single structure cities (predicting Paolo Soleri's archologies) and live a life similar to contemporary Americans that because of their race, physically and morally weak. Nowlan calls them "yellow devils" and "oppressors of the White Race." He also describes "the American Race" as being "virile." Rogers is eventually rescued by the guerrilla gangs of America, including his wife Wilma, and "girl" soldiers who go on to use "air balls" (drones) to destroy the Han cities, and merrily commit genocide for the greater good. Then it is explained that Buck and Wilma go around the world and find that the other nonwhite races are okay, even "the simple, spiritual Blacks of Africa." You see, the Han were part alien, descended from beings who arrived in Mongolia in the distant past. Like I said, amazing.
July 8, 2025
Not as fun as the title might imply
I was hoping this was going to be a fun retro sci-fi adventure store with a character I am only vaguely aware of. I knew the name Buck Rogers from the tv series of the 70's, although I doubt that I actually ever watched it. I thought I'd give this story a shot. Being under a hundred pages it seemed like a quick read. However it proved to be a very tedious experience. The story is almost nonexistent and characters are poorly presented. The author seems more interested in describing the hardware and "technology" than creating a solid narrative. I just finished it and I couldn't give you a summary of the plot. Things happen. People move from one location to another. A fight occasionally breaks out. It's that disjointed and unfocused. Being told in the first person might have been a mistake and it needed to bring this world to life. Nothing is more boring than when you read a book or story and the author fails to make it come alive in the reader's mind and it becomes nothing but text on a page. My two star rating is being overly generous.
I was hoping this was going to be a fun retro sci-fi adventure store with a character I am only vaguely aware of. I knew the name Buck Rogers from the tv series of the 70's, although I doubt that I actually ever watched it. I thought I'd give this story a shot. Being under a hundred pages it seemed like a quick read. However it proved to be a very tedious experience. The story is almost nonexistent and characters are poorly presented. The author seems more interested in describing the hardware and "technology" than creating a solid narrative. I just finished it and I couldn't give you a summary of the plot. Things happen. People move from one location to another. A fight occasionally breaks out. It's that disjointed and unfocused. Being told in the first person might have been a mistake and it needed to bring this world to life. Nothing is more boring than when you read a book or story and the author fails to make it come alive in the reader's mind and it becomes nothing but text on a page. My two star rating is being overly generous.
March 22, 2017
I didn't find this book as entertaining as the first one.
In fact, I would have to say that the first 40 pages or so were outright boring.
We have 20 pages of yet another battle in which the Americans defeat the Airlords, followed by 20 pages filled with descriptions and explanations of every possible mechanical/scientific gadget in the story. But the explanations don't make sense. It's gobbledigook.
The next 40 pages tell us how 'Tony' gets captured and subsequentlyends up living inside the Royal Palace in the capital city for several months. We get plenty of descriptions to illustrate the wickedness of the Hans ... But oh, don't worry, these 'degenerate monsters' (they seem to be alien hybrids) will all be slaughtered at the end of the story.
Only one amusing bit of writing : Wilma seems to be fainting in Tony's arms quite a bit. Must be a sign of the times.
Note : You can also get this story from Project Gutenberg.
In fact, I would have to say that the first 40 pages or so were outright boring.
We have 20 pages of yet another battle in which the Americans defeat the Airlords, followed by 20 pages filled with descriptions and explanations of every possible mechanical/scientific gadget in the story. But the explanations don't make sense. It's gobbledigook.
The next 40 pages tell us how 'Tony' gets captured and subsequentlyends up living inside the Royal Palace in the capital city for several months. We get plenty of descriptions to illustrate the wickedness of the Hans ... But oh, don't worry, these 'degenerate monsters' (they seem to be alien hybrids) will all be slaughtered at the end of the story.
Only one amusing bit of writing : Wilma seems to be fainting in Tony's arms quite a bit. Must be a sign of the times.
Note : You can also get this story from Project Gutenberg.
December 2, 2019
Wow this was a slog. It's full of needless technical detail on the hypothetical operation of long distance view screens and flying machines, and lots of overtly racist ranting about asian people. What little action there is is interrupted by asides and technobabble explanations so often that it's entirely stale.
In spite of that, it's the root of the Buck Rogers series. The core principal of the idea of a man who was frozen in time and awoke to find his homeland beset by invaders is a good one. It just ... this isn't the version of that story I want to read. Reading this makes me want to write a better version of this story.
In spite of that, it's the root of the Buck Rogers series. The core principal of the idea of a man who was frozen in time and awoke to find his homeland beset by invaders is a good one. It just ... this isn't the version of that story I want to read. Reading this makes me want to write a better version of this story.
August 14, 2019
Not as good as book one. But still enjoyable.
I had thoroughly enjoyed book one. I found it cast paced and fun.
This book was a bit slower. Interestingly enough that's because Nowlan spent time explaining the science of this world. While that was interesting in itself, it did slow down the story. Making it just a bit less enjoyable than the first book.
But still ... Buck Rogers!!! How can you too that???
I had thoroughly enjoyed book one. I found it cast paced and fun.
This book was a bit slower. Interestingly enough that's because Nowlan spent time explaining the science of this world. While that was interesting in itself, it did slow down the story. Making it just a bit less enjoyable than the first book.
But still ... Buck Rogers!!! How can you too that???
September 30, 2020
Although well edited, The Airlords of Han is definitely a story of its time (1929) and it shows. Extremely expositional, the 1st Person POV narrative is deadly expositional. All that noted, I can see how this was a good read in its day. By today's standards and in a world belabored by a need for everyone to get equal attention all the time, its obvious prejudices would never fly.
For that matter, it's a pity they flew then.
For that matter, it's a pity they flew then.
September 25, 2019
I like the plot, but the writing is not great and the level of racism and sexism is distracting and off-putting. Someone needs to rewrite this series who can write 1) better and 2) less offensively. I know it's partly the era in which it was written, but still...ugh.
April 3, 2022
Glimrende historie. Var godt underholdt. De to kapitler om teknologierne kunne jeg godt have undværet. De var kedelige og bidrog ikke til noget i historien. Men ellers var der fed action. Det er tid til pay-back, og amerikanerne lægger ikke fingrene imellem.
January 3, 2024
Second Buck Rogers tale from this geezer, the OG so to speak.
Anyway of some interest, although sometimes it feels like you are reading an encyclopaedia article rather than a novel.
And yes Goodreads I am not a Robot - you know most places ask you one time, not after every single review!
Anyway of some interest, although sometimes it feels like you are reading an encyclopaedia article rather than a novel.
And yes Goodreads I am not a Robot - you know most places ask you one time, not after every single review!
March 4, 2019
Hoo boy has this aged poorly
September 10, 2021
Dated
Quite dated in style yet for that it is a window into the attitudes of early 20th century America. There are racial overtones.
Quite dated in style yet for that it is a window into the attitudes of early 20th century America. There are racial overtones.
March 25, 2022
The two chapters about the technology were boring, but other than that, I found the story highly entertaining.
March 30, 2022
#2 in the Buck Rogers series. Fun pulp novel despite getting bogged down with questionable scientific explanations.
April 23, 2022
Fighting the "Yellow peril"
TW: Modern people probably will find this book blatantly racist.
But action in it ain't bad, and this is far from the worst book I've read.
TW: Modern people probably will find this book blatantly racist.
But action in it ain't bad, and this is far from the worst book I've read.
December 29, 2024
As a period piece this is quite racist and technologically 'peculiar. Nonetheless the tale is interesting and worth reading.
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