Armageddon 2419 A.D. is a science fiction that first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. Nowlan's novella tells about the United States in the 25th century, conquered by Hans in 2109 AD and only now beginning to rebel. Philip Francis Nowlan (1888-1940) was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers. This character first appeared in Nowlan's 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D. as Anthony Rogers. The comic strip ran for over forty years and spun off a radio series, a 1939 movie serial and two television series. Nowlan also wrote several other novellas for the science fiction magazines as well as the posthumously published mystery, The Girl from Nowhere.