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" With the Night Mail " is a 1905 science fiction novella by Rudyard Kipling . Setting. The story is set in the early 21st century and describes the Aerial Board of Control, a fictional supranational organization dedicated to the control and aid of airship traffic across the whole world.
- English
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With the Night Mail – The Kipling Society. by Rudyard Kipling. A NINE O’CLOCK of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in “Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed”; and the Postmaster-General himself countersigned the order.
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- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
- 09008570
- Leyendecker, Frank X., 1877-1924
- Publication
- The Story
- Background
- Kipling and Science Fiction
- Some Critical Comments
This story was first published in the United States of America in McClure’s Magazine for November 1905, and in the United Kingdom in The Windsor Magazine for December 1905; it was collected in Actions and Reactions (1909), Scribners Edition Volume XXIV, the Burwash Edition volume VIII, the Sussex Editionvolume VIII, and various Pocket and Uniform E...
It is the year 2000, and – powered by ‘Fleury’s Ray’ – a host of transatlantic aircraft, most of them lighter-than-air (airships), are flying across the air waves. The narrator is on board a mail plane, en route from London to Quebec. The technicalities of the journey, the expertise of the crew, the radio communications they use, and the internatio...
This is another flight of fancy which ORG ( Vol. 6, p. 2826) has treated very seriously, with much important information on lighter-than-air flight and the mechanics of the craft concerned. This Editor, writing in 2006, takes the view, however, that Kipling made this up as he went along, adapting procedures and expressions from existing modes of tr...
In the view of many modern writers of Science Fiction, Kipling was a pioneer of the genre. Seed Fred :Lerner’s essay A Master of Our Art. See also: The Finest Story in the World A Matter of Fact .007 The Ship that Found Herself the Army of a Dream Wireless Cold Iron A Doctor of Medicine The Knife and the Naked Chalk As Easy as ABC In the Same Boat ...
Charles Carrington(p. 374) draws attention to Kipling’s: See also Fred Lerner’s article in this Guide on Rudyard Kipling considered as a Science Fiction writer, and The Cambridge Guide to Literature in Englishby Ian Ousby (1988), p. 834. [J H McG/J.R.] ©John McGivering and John Radcliffe 2020 All rights reserved
With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. Rudyard Kipling. 3.06. 161 ratings38 reviews. Reprint of Kipling's delightful science fiction tale, first written in 1904, imagining a then-impossible overnight air flight from London to Canada, which takes place in December of the year 2000.
6. Mai 2010 · With the night mail : a story of 2,000 A.D. : together with extracts from the contemporary magazine in which it appeared : Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
