The Airlords of Han

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Philip Francis Nowlan. The Airlords of Han

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

CHAPTER IX. The Fall of Nu-Yok

CHAPTER X. Life in Lo-Tan, the Magnificent

CHAPTER XI. The Forest Men Attack

CHAPTER XII. The Mysterious "Air Balls"

CHAPTER XIII. Escape!

CHAPTER XIV. The Destruction of Lo-Tan

CHAPTER XV. The Counter-Attack

CHAPTER XVI. Victory

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ONE of our Wyoming girls, on contact guard near Pocono, blundered into a hunting camp of the Bad Bloods, one of the renegade American Gangs, which occupied the Blue Mountain section North of Delaware Water Gap. We had not invited their cooperation in this campaign, for they were under some suspicion of having trafficked with the Hans in past years, but they had offered no objection to our passage through their territory in our advance on Nu-Yok.

Fortunately our contact guard had been able to leap into the upper branches of a tree without being discovered by the Bad Bloods, for their discipline was lax and their guard careless. She overheard enough of the conversation of their Bosses around the camp fire beneath her to indicate the general nature of the Han plans.

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But both the Delawares and my own men were elated at the news that the Hans intended to fight it out on the ground at last, and the prospect that we might in consequence come to close quarters with them.

Many of the Gang Bosses were dubious about our Wyoming policy of providing our fighters with no inertron armor as protection against the disintegrator ray of the Hans. Some of them even questioned the value of all weapons intended for hand-to-hand fighting.

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