
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:
The AIRLORDS of HAN - By PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN
CHAPTER I The Airlords Besieged
CHAPTER II The "Ground Ships" Threaten
CHAPTER III We "Sink" the "Ground Ships"
CHAPTER IV Han Electrono-Ray Science
CHAPTER V American Ultronic Science
CHAPTER VI An Unequal Duel
CHAPTER VII Captured!
CHAPTER VIII Hypnotic Torture
Awakened from a half‑millennium of suspended animation, Anthony Rogers finds a world unrecognizable: the United States has been shattered, its people driven into hidden forests while a fleet of alien‑like Mongolian “Airlords” dominate the skies in gleaming airships powered by mysterious repeller rays. The once‑great nation is reduced to scattered clans that scrape survival from the ruins, inventing crude rockets and improvised artillery to strike at the hovering behemoths.
Rogers joins the rugged Wyoming Gang, descendants of the old Pennsylvania settlers, and discovers a daring tactic—launching rockets into the enemy’s levitation columns, causing their ships to explode from within. With this advantage, the rag‑tag resistance begins to turn the tide, striking at the fortified city of Nu‑Yok and unsettling the Airlords’ iron grip. The story blends gritty post‑apocalyptic survival with high‑octane aerial combat, setting the stage for a larger struggle between humanity’s stubborn resilience and a technologically superior oppressor.
Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (174K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
May 11, 2008
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1888–1940
Best known for creating Buck Rogers, this early science fiction writer helped shape the way futuristic adventure reached popular audiences. His work linked pulp fiction, newspaper comics, and the growing imagination of the space age.
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