Buck Rogers
25th-century adventurer
Buck Rogers is a fictional American space adventurer who first appeared in 1928, becoming an icon of futuristic science fiction.
The name now serves as shorthand for anything involving flashy, optimistic space-age technology: buck rogers stuff, a buck rogers gadget.
Something described as Buck Rogers suggests ray guns, rocket ships, and gleaming futures—retro-futurism with a sense of wide-eyed wonder rather than dystopian edge.
Serialized newspaper cartoon panels
- pulp magazineInexpensive fiction periodical
- cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
- matineeDaytime theatrical performance
- space operaDramatic sci-fi in cosmos
dime novel · science fiction · raygun · retrofuturism · rocketship · Flash Gordon · golden age · funnies
Technologically advanced, futuristically styled
- raygunFictional energy weapon
- rocketshipPropelled craft for space
- jetpackBack-mounted flying apparatus
- zeppelinRigid lighter-than-air craft
airship · atomic age · art deco · disintegrator · robot servant · flying car · space helmet · chrome
Voyaging beyond Earth's atmosphere
- time travelMovement across temporal points
- suspended animationHalted vital functions, reversible
- cryogenicsUltralow temperature science
- interstellarBetween celestial bodies
extraterrestrial · alien · spacecraft · starship · laser · force field · teleportation · dystopia
comic strip
Serialized newspaper cartoon panels
- pulp magazineInexpensive fiction periodical
- cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
- matineeDaytime theatrical performance
space opera · dime novel · science fiction · raygun · retrofuturism · rocketship · Flash Gordon · golden age · funnies · illustration
space-age
Technologically advanced, futuristically styled
- raygunFictional energy weapon
- rocketshipPropelled craft for space
- jetpackBack-mounted flying apparatus
zeppelin · airship · atomic age · art deco · disintegrator · robot servant · flying car · space helmet · chrome · futuristic city
space travel
Voyaging beyond Earth's atmosphere
- time travelMovement across temporal points
- suspended animationHalted vital functions, reversible
- cryogenicsUltralow temperature science
interstellar · extraterrestrial · alien · spacecraft · starship · laser · force field · teleportation · dystopia · utopia
adventurer
One pursuing exciting exploits
pilot · soldier · fighter · warrior · leader · bravery · courage · daring · rescuer · gallant
Crichton
- TheoGreek-rooted male nickname
- comic stripsPeanuts, Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Blondie, Doonesbury
- space operaStar Wars, Star Trek, Dune, hyperspace, lightsaber
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Great Depression, appeasement
- Fictional PilotsMaverick, Goose, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Snoopy
- pulp fictionpulp, pulp fiction, pulp magazines, pulp novels, dime novels
- radio dramaradio play, radio serial, radio scripts, radio broadcast, radio mystery
Buck RogersRobin Hood
Legendary forest-dwelling archer
King Arthur · Tarzan · Fred Flintstone · medieval knight · caveman
Buck RogersLuddite
One opposing technological progress
caveman · primitive · low-tech · technophobe · Robinson Crusoe
bucket, bucks, bucked, buckaroo, bucking, bucketing, buckboard, Buck, bucker