English · Intermediate
Read Armageddon 2419 A.D. in Englishwith every sentence explained
Philip Francis Nowlan · 1928
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About the book
Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan was first published in 1928. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under science fiction and thriller and suspense. It runs to about 25,800 words.
He fell asleep in 1927. He woke up in the 25th century.
Trapped by gas in an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania, Anthony Rogers sinks into a deep, dreamless sleep. When he finally stumbles out into the forest, 492 years have passed. America is gone. Its cities were wiped out long ago by the Hans, conquerors who now rule from gleaming cities and airships armed with terrifying disintegrator rays.
The Americans who survived live hidden in the woods in "gangs", leaping through the treetops with anti-gravity belts and fighting with silent rocket guns. When Rogers saves a young scout named Wilma Deering from an ambush, he is drawn into their struggle, and his old soldier's instincts may be exactly what the future needs.
Fast and inventive, Armageddon 2419 A.D. is the pulp adventure that gave the world Buck Rogers and helped shape science fiction for decades.
- Author
- Philip Francis Nowlan
- First published
- 1928
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Science Fiction, Thriller and Suspense
- Length
- About 25,800 words
How it opens
My first glimpse of a human being of the 25th Century was obtained through a portion of woodland where the trees were thinly scattered, with a dense forest beyond.
I had been wandering along aimlessly, and hopelessly, musing over my strange fate, when I noticed a figure that cautiously backed out of the dense growth across the glade. I was about to call out joyfully, but there was something furtive about the figure that prevented me. The boy's attention (for it seemed to be a lad of fifteen or sixteen) was centered tensely on the heavy growth of trees from which he had just emerged.
Reading Armageddon 2419 A.D. in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
