{"product_id":"2940013134430","title":"Armageddon 2419 AD","description":"Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this,\u003cbr\u003ethe 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow it occurs to me that my memories of the 25th Century may have an\u003cbr\u003eequal interest 500 years from now--particularly in view of that unique\u003cbr\u003eperspective from which I have seen the 25th Century, entering it as I\u003cbr\u003edid, in one leap across a gap of 492 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis statement requires elucidation. There are still many in the world\u003cbr\u003ewho are not familiar with my unique experience. I should state\u003cbr\u003etherefore, that I, Anthony Rogers, am, so far as I know the only man\u003cbr\u003ealive whose normal span of life has been spread over a period of 573\u003cbr\u003eyears. To be precise, I lived the first twenty-nine years of my life\u003cbr\u003ebetween 1898 and 1927; the rest since 2419. The gap between these two,\u003cbr\u003ea period of nearly a five hundred years, I spent in a state of\u003cbr\u003esuspended animation, free from the ravages of catabolic processes, and\u003cbr\u003ewithout any apparent effect on my physical or mental faculties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I began my long sleep, man had just begun his real conquest of\u003cbr\u003ethe air in a sudden series of transoceanic flights in airplanes driven\u003cbr\u003eby internal combustion motors. He had barely begun to speculate on the\u003cbr\u003epossibilities of harnessing sub-atomic forces, and had made no further\u003cbr\u003epractical penetration into the field of ethereal pulsations than the\u003cbr\u003eprimitive radio and television of that day. The United States of\u003cbr\u003eAmerica was the most powerful nation in the world, its political,\u003cbr\u003efinancial, industrial and scientific influence being supreme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI awoke to find the America I knew a total wreck--to find Americans a\u003cbr\u003ehunted race in their own land, hiding in the dense forests that\u003cbr\u003ecovered the shattered and leveled ruins of their once magnificent\u003cbr\u003ecities, desperately preserving, and struggling to develop in their\u003cbr\u003esecret retreats, the remnants of their culture and science and their\u003cbr\u003eindependence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorld domination was in the hands of Mongolians, and the center of\u003cbr\u003eworld power lay in inland China, with Americans one of the few races\u003cbr\u003eof mankind unsubdued--and it must be admitted in fairness to the\u003cbr\u003etruth, not worth the trouble of subduing in the eyes of the Han\u003cbr\u003eAirlords who ruled North America as titular tributaries of the Most\u003cbr\u003eMagnificent.","brand":"Purple Cow Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179543249136,"sku":"2940013134430","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013134430_p0.jpg?v=1763577229","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013134430","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}