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ULTIMATE GUIDE BUCK ROGERS COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY

In 1995, when Soviet remnants launch a new deadly tactical missile system, it compels the Americans to send ace pilot Buck Rogers into space to destroy it. The system is annihilated, along with Buck’s plane, and our legendary hero is frozen in space, awaiting discovery 500 years later. In a way, Buck could be considered to be the luckiest man on Earth: understandably upset at the destruction of their new-fangled missile platform, the Soviets unleash a nuclear strike at the USA and in the ensuing war, much of the planet is shattered into radioactive fragments. Aghast at the devastation, the world’s governments unilaterally disarm, and power begins to shift to the vast corporations that have no such

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