Note: Novelizing the teleplay by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens.

Synopsis: Join Buck Rogers in the 25th Century!... As he plunges into the cosmos on Earth's last deep-space probe... As he succumbs to an assault of tremendously cold gas... As he is miraculously revived after a five-hundred-year "frozen death" aboard a Draconian Empire ship - only to become a plaything of the alluring Princess Ardala and a pawn in the treacherous game of Kane, menacing commander of the Draconian fleet... As he returns to Earth a stranger, feared, suspected, driven out into the lawless wastes of Anarchia - with only a devoted android and a computerized drone... to help him save his life - and his planet - from dread tyranny. (from the back cover of the first edition)