Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Awakening

by C.K. Stringfellow

An updated version of the original book by Addison E. Steele which adjusts the dialogue and sequence of events to match the theatrical release while adding and/or deleting events that were/were not in the theatrical release and/or television pilot.

1. Intro

BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY

AWAKENING

Addison E. Steele and

C. K. Stringfellow

In the year 1987, at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA launched the last of America's deep space probes. The payload perched on the nose cone of the massive rocket, was a one-man exploration vessel - Ranger 3. Aboard this compact starship, a lone astronaut, Captain William "Buck" Rogers, was to experience cosmic forces beyond all comprehension - an awesome brush with death.

In the wink-of-an-eye his life support systems were frozen by temperatures beyond imagination. Ranger 3 was blown out of its planned trajectory into an orbit a thousand times more vast. An orbit that was to return the ship full circle to its point of origin - its Mother Earth, not in five months, but in five hundred years.

For five hundred years Buck Rogers drifted through a world in which reality and fantasy merged into a timeless dream…

Based on the story, teleplay, theatrical release and television pilot by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens.

An updated version of the original book by Addison E. Steele which adjusts the dialogue and sequence of events to match the theatrical release while adding and/or deleting events that were/were not in the theatrical release and/or television pilot.

Also updated the book from past tense to present tense.