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Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future

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at Cyberdyne Systems, in the hopes that at some point in the future new technologies will render his injuries survivable. Ultimately, as civilizations rise and fall, Rogers is kept in stasis for five centuries before he is discovered and revived.
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while also helping Earth battle various invaders. Along the way he falls in love with Wilma Deering, a top pilot in the Space Corps.
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Caidin's novel retells the story of Anthony "Buck" Rogers, a top pilot who is mortally wounded in a
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plane crash. Given zero chance of survival with modern-day medical methods, Rogers is placed into
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As with the original Buck Rogers story, the pilot must adjust to life in the
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The first edition of the novel includes as a bonus a reprint of a 1933
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and in films and television. Caidin's novel was published by
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Martin Caidin
Philip Francis Nowlan
Larry Elmore
Buck Rogers
science fiction
Novel
TSR, Inc.
Hardback
ISBN
0-7869-0144-6
OCLC
32989941
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
science fiction
Martin Caidin
Buck Rogers
pulp fiction
Philip Francis Nowlan
comic strip
TSR, Inc.
role-playing game
Buck Rogers XXVC
Fokker
suspended animation
25th century
children's book
Dick Calkins
TSR's Buck Rogers

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