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With the Night Mail

With the Night Mail


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About the Book

SHE: Do you like Kipling? HE: I don't know, I've never Kippled! If you've never read Rudyard Kipling's science fiction, then you've never Kippled.

Having achieved international fame with The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Kim, and his Just So Stories, in 1905 Kipling serialized a thrilling science fiction novella, With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D, in which the reader learns -- while following the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather -- about a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control, which enforces a rigid system of command and control not only in the skies (which are increasingly crowded with every manner of zeppelin) but in world affairs too.

Kipling got so excited by his own utopian vision that when the story first appeared in McClure's Magazine, it was accompanied by phony advertisements for dirigible and aeronautical products that he'd written, plus other ersatz magazine clippings. In one of these latter, we read that the Aerial Board of Control had effectively outlawed war in 1967 -- by reserving to every nation the right of waging war so long as it does not interfere with traffic and all that that implies.

This turns out to imply a great deal! In Kipling's 1912 followup story, As Easy As A.B.C., which is set 65 years after With the Night Mail, we learn just how complete the Aerial Board's control is over the social and economic affairs of every nation. When a mob of disgruntled Serviles in the District of Northern Illinois demands the return of democracy, the A.B.C. sends a team of troubleshooters (from England, Russia, Japan, and Italy) and a fleet of 200 zeppelins to take such steps as might be necessary for the resumption of traffic and all that that implies. Democracy, it seems, is an impediment to the smooth flow of international commerce -- so it was abolished during the 20th century, along with newspapers.

What happens when the A.B.C. troubleshooters confront the democrats? Trouble!
About the Author: Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book and Kim, also wrote two dystopian science fiction tales. With the Night Mail (1905) and As Easy As A. B. C. (1912) are set on a 21st century Earth ruled from the skies by the worldwide Aerial Board of Control.

Matthew De Abaitua's debut novel The Red Men was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His book The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars is published by Hamish Hamilton.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781935869528
  • Publisher: Hilobooks
  • Publisher Imprint: Hilobooks
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 192 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Series Title: Radium Age Science Fiction
  • Sub Title: A Story of 2000 A.D. and "As Easy as A.B.C."
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1935869523
  • Publisher Date: 22 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Anniversary ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 1518 gr


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