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Title: Armageddon--2419 A.D.

Author: Philip Francis Nowlan

Illustrator: Frank R. Paul

Release Date: May 26, 2010 [EBook #32530]

Language: English

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ARMAGEDDON--2419 A.D.

_By Philip Francis Nowlan_

_Here, once more, is a real scientifiction story plus. It is a story
which will make the heart of many readers leap with joy._

_We have rarely printed a story in this magazine that for scientific
interest, as well as suspense, could hold its own with this
particular story. We prophesy that this story will become more
valuable as the years go by. It certainly holds a number of
interesting prophecies, of which no doubt, many will come true. For
wealth of science, it will be hard to beat for some time to come. It
is one of those rare stories that will bear reading and re-reading
many times._

_This story has impressed us so favorably, that we hope the author
may be induced to write a sequel to it soon._

Foreword

Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the
25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century.

Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an
equal interest 500 years from now--particularly in view of that unique
perspective from which I have seen the 25th Century, entering it as I
did, in one leap across a gap of 492 years.

This statement requires elucidation. There are still many in the world
who are not familiar with my unique experience. Five centuries from now
there may be many more, especially if civilization is fated to endure
any worse convulsions than those which have occurred between 1975 A.D.
and the present time.

I should state therefore, that I, Anthony Rogers, am, so far as I know,
the only man alive whose normal span of eighty-one years of life has
been spread over a period of 573 years. To be precise, I lived the f