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Title: The Airlords of Han

Author: Philip Francis Nowlan

Illustrator: Frank R. Paul

Release Date: May 11, 2008 [EBook #25438]
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Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories Fact and Science
Fiction_ May 1962 and was first published in _Amazing Stories_ March
1929. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
typographical errors have been corrected without note. A table of
contents has been provided below:

I. The Airlords Besieged
II. The "Ground Ships" Threaten
III. We "Sink" the "Ground Ships"
IV. Han Electrono-Ray Science
V. American Ultronic Science
VI. An Unequal Duel
VII. Captured!
VIII. Hypnotic Torture
IX. The Fall of Nu-Yok
X. Life in Lo-Tan, the Magnificent
XI. The Forest Men Attack
XII. The Mysterious "Air Balls"
XIII. Escape!
XIV. The Destruction of Lo-Tan
XV. The Counter-Attack
XVI. Victory

[Illustration: A Classic Reprint from AMAZING STORIES, March, 1929]

_The AIRLORDS of HAN_

By PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN

Illustrated by FRANK R. PAUL

_Copyright, 1927, by E. P. Co., Inc._

CHAPTER I

The Airlords Besieged

In a previous record of my adventures in the early part of the Second
War of Independence I explained how I, Anthony Rogers, was overcome by
radioactive gases in an abandoned mine near Scranton in the year 1927,
where I existed in a state of suspended animation for nearly five
hundred years; and awakened to find that the America I knew had been
crushed under the cruel tyranny of the Airlords of Han, fierce
Mongolians, who, as scientists now contend, had in their blood a taint
not of this earth,