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Related to material in Buck Rogers, 2430 AD
by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins)

Exciting series of Buck Rogers comic strips from 1929 to 1931. They begin with Buck falling asleep in a mine cave-in and awakened 500 years into the future, just in time to join the resistance movement against the Red Mongols.

Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies. Select a news article:

3D Printing Of Metallic Glass
   Great Scott!

Russians Think US Is Weaponizing Asteroids
   'BY PUSHING AGAINST THE LITTLE MARTIAN MOON WITH OUR ROCKET SHIP, WE HAD LESSENED THE CENTRIFUGAL SPEED THAT HELD IT BALANCED IN THE SKY.' - Philip Nowlan and D. Calkins, 1930.

Russians Create Robot Tank Platoons
   'The remotely-operated robot tank is an old idea...'

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