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- Kveto from Prague
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- Kveto from Prague
- Compulsive Reader
- Posts: 921
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Prague, Bohemia
- Kveto from Prague
- Compulsive Reader
- Posts: 921
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Prague, Bohemia
- Kveto from Prague
- Compulsive Reader
- Posts: 921
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Prague, Bohemia
- Kveto from Prague
- Compulsive Reader
- Posts: 921
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Prague, Bohemia
- Kveto from Prague
- Compulsive Reader
- Posts: 921
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Prague, Bohemia
- Kveto from Prague
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- Posts: 921
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Prague, Bohemia
Hey Annis, yeah he's one of them along with Sax Rohmer among others. I read these for a couple of reasons, I'm a fan of old Buck Rogers newspaper serials and this was what inspired them and also as a cultural time capsule of the times.
These two stories do play up the "yellow peril" attitude of the 1920's, especially. I was interested because they are very early "future apocalypse" examples, rare in those times of hope for the future. His premise is that the US and Europe wear each other out fighting wars, so the Chinese and Mongols are able to conqueor the world with new technology. Interestingly, the Asians for him represent a very privledged, rich on top, right wing society. the rebel americans are only able to defeat them by bonding together in a selfless almost communal society. In fact, the American "gangs" work in almost the same way as a kibutz.
Anyway, ive always like to see what people in the past imagined the future to be like. they are free kindle reads. if you can overlook the "good guys as white americans fighting the bad yellow people angle", they make for a decent quick read. Can't really recommend them unless you have a kind of interest in the subject matter. Nowlan really plays up the "science" angle to the sci-fi, so you can see why that made buck rogers popular. Not sure how interesting they are within the topics of this board, tho. I mostly needed a HF break.
These two stories do play up the "yellow peril" attitude of the 1920's, especially. I was interested because they are very early "future apocalypse" examples, rare in those times of hope for the future. His premise is that the US and Europe wear each other out fighting wars, so the Chinese and Mongols are able to conqueor the world with new technology. Interestingly, the Asians for him represent a very privledged, rich on top, right wing society. the rebel americans are only able to defeat them by bonding together in a selfless almost communal society. In fact, the American "gangs" work in almost the same way as a kibutz.
Anyway, ive always like to see what people in the past imagined the future to be like. they are free kindle reads. if you can overlook the "good guys as white americans fighting the bad yellow people angle", they make for a decent quick read. Can't really recommend them unless you have a kind of interest in the subject matter. Nowlan really plays up the "science" angle to the sci-fi, so you can see why that made buck rogers popular. Not sure how interesting they are within the topics of this board, tho. I mostly needed a HF break.
- Kveto from Prague
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- Posts: 921
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Prague, Bohemia