Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 312 pages
- Published by: TSR; First Edition edition September 1995
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0786901446
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0786901449
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Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
The serial space-ranger Buck Rogers tells his own story for the first time, from his awakening in a strange future to his immortal exploits in the domed city of the Mongols, the Martian camps of the tigermen, and elsewhere.
Reader Reviews
The original Buck Rogers wasn't "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" and wasn't written in the 1930s. It was "Armageddon 2419 A.D." and was written in 1919. It _WAS_ a profoundly racist and anti-Asian book by modern standards. With that in mind, Caidin's tale is actually rather well done. He kept much of the flavor of a dated book, while bringing it closer to the present day reader. If there's any blame here, it's on the publisher for trying to drag what should remain a period piece in literature into the contemporary. I assume, since TSR-now-WotC was the publisher, that it ties into a game somewhere. As a writer myself it always makes my teeth itch when reviewers, who should know better, attempt to drape the author in his characters. A good writer's characters may resemble himself in any detail or none. This is clearly the latter.
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