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The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, the celebrated author of The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, and Just So Stories, and one of the finest storytellers in the English language - is rediscovered in these pages as a science fiction pioneer. The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling is sure to surprise, delight, and inspire: ten tales whose themes are time travel, sentient machines, alternate history, and other classic science fiction topics. Among the vivid stories included here are "The Eye of Allah," "With the Night Mail," and "As Easy as A.B.C." Also included is valuable and illuminating background information on each tale. Now, discover why noted science fiction writer Poul Anderson praised these stories as "some of the best work in the entire field."
Contents:
With the Night Mail (1905)
Unprofessional (1930)
The Ship That Found Herself (1992)
The Fairies' Siege (1901) poem
The Eye of Allah (1926)
In the Same Boat (1911)
As Easy as A.B.C. (1912)
A Matter of Fact (1892)
"Wireless" (1902)
.007 (1897)
Contents:
With the Night Mail (1905)
Unprofessional (1930)
The Ship That Found Herself (1992)
The Fairies' Siege (1901) poem
The Eye of Allah (1926)
In the Same Boat (1911)
As Easy as A.B.C. (1912)
A Matter of Fact (1892)
"Wireless" (1902)
.007 (1897)
178 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1932
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Rudyard Kipling
7,239 books3,700 followersJoseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."
Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. On the night of 12 January 1936, Kipling suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery, but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936 at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."
Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."
Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. On the night of 12 January 1936, Kipling suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery, but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936 at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."
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Rudyard Kipling & John Brunner's
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - January 29, 2013
I read this largely b/c I've been preoccupied w/ authors I read as a kid & w/ bks that're take-offs of other bks. As a child I read Kipling's The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, & Captains Courageous. I've been planning to read a take-off on the latter called Captains Outrageous & reading this Kipling SF bk seemed like a good transition. I lost interest in Kipling when I was very young except for, perhaps, an enduring love for the feral narrative exemplified by The Jungle Book & didn't really have any high hopes for this bk - probably b/c Kipling's association w/ British colonized India overly associates him w/ imperialism for me. Nonetheless, I hoped I'd find it an astonishing surprise.. but I didn't.
However, the editor, John Brunner, purveys an infectious enthusiasm & gives valuable scholarly intros to each story. In fact, I liked Brunner's input so much I went out & bought the 6 bks I cd find by him at local used bookseller. Even tho his is a name I've known for decades, I've never read anything by him. A capsule review from the Washington Post Book World on the back cover has this to say: "The equal of Wells and the superior of Verne". Well! Them's fightin' words - & I can't say I agree. SO, I went out & got 8 Verne bks today - none of wch had I previously heard of. 1st off, Wells & Verne were novelists & Kipling's SF is all short stories - so such comparisons are ridiculous.
Most of these Kipling stories strike me as less fantastic, wch is what much Verne & Wells is, & more short excursions inspired by studies of specific technical details. Kipling's preoccupation w/ what was then fairly new technology gets him into travel stories. But even there I think Verne, particularly, was way ahead of him. Who Kipling reminds me of the most is Poe & there's a bk called The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe that I think wd be worth reading in comparison. But Poe was writing 50 or 60 yrs before Kipling. STILL, I enjoyed these stories somewhat & was glad to read them given that I'd previously thought of Kipling as more of an adventure writer.
Brunner's bio intro made me like Kipling all the more. The 1st paragraph reads:
"In a book by David Frost entitled I Could Have Kicked Myself, a compilation of decisions that their makers lived to regret, it is asserted that in 1869 the editor of the San Francisco examiner sacked Rudyard Kipling from his job as a cub reporter, saying, "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."
"Which was, I suppose, scarcely surprising, since at the time RK was rather less than five years old." (p ix)
"He was the first British author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature" [..] "He was twice offered, twice refused,a knighthood." (p ix) That latter makes me trust & like him more - even w/o knowing his reasons. "To the end of his days he retained his admiration, dating from his late teens, for the tough hard-headed individualist" (p xi) I can relate to that. "He was made much of in London, but despite his many acquaintances felt desperately lonely until he fell in with a young American named Wolcott Balestier. They became close friends and even collaborated on a novel, The Naulahka." (p xi) That got me curious, not that many writers collaborate, I'd like to read it. Kipling settled on his wife's family's estate in "Vermont. The next few years ensured that America became the second greatest influence on his work, after India." (p xi) Didn't know that!
"[H]e was so famous and indeed so beloved a writer that when, at the same time, Pope Leo XIII also fell ill, the Pall Mall Gazette issued posters with the headline KIPLING AND POPE - in that order." (p xii) I don't think these stories are what put him in that category. "He was a baffling, paradoxical man: fiercely patriotic, yet among the keenest and most unrelenting critics of his country; an advocate of Empire, who made no secret of his lifelong affection and respect for those whom others casually dismissed as "wogs" or worse; a man of letters whose greatest admiration was reserved for men of action" (p xiii)
In the 1st story, "A Matter of Fact", there's casual mention of "raining frogs" - something I expect more from Charles Fort. Has anyone reading this ever seen a rain of frogs? I haven't.. but I'd like to.. An interesting twist in this 1st story is that there's pity for the sea serpent's travails rather than terror & repulsion. This 1st story, again, reminds me of Poe - but the 2nd & 3rd stories use anthropomorphosis of machines to make technical description more entertaining - & I don't think Poe wd've done that:
""Good business," said the high-pressure cylinder. "Whack her up, boys. They've given us five pounds more steam"; and he began humming the first bars of "Said the Young Obadiah to the Old Obadiah," which, as you may have noticed, is a pet tune among engines not built for high speed. Racing liners with twin-screws sing "The Turking Patrol" and the overture to the "Bronze Horse," and "Madame Angot," till something goes wrong, and then they render Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," with variations.
""You'll learn a song of your own some fine day," said the Steam, as he flew up the foghorn for one last bellow." (p 27)
TB features in 2 or 3 of the stories - showing how prevalent, & incurable, it was in Kipling's day. Spiritism is given an interesting twist in a story where Keats is channelled or paralleled under similar conditions to Keats' own - as an analog to radio. & in Unprofessional, Kipling takes a similar hypothetical stand vis a vis astronomy as I do in my 1st bk (in wch I wrote: "anything is a microcosm of everything / therefore, 1 can read a palm / (e g) / & derive the same info as if reading everything / re / astrology, / 1 can believe in a certain type of unity of the elements considered / & use some overt aspects of things whose significance is determined X intensity, / gravity / (e g), / as an implicational representative of interactive effects"). Brunner introduces this story thusly:
"The said program reported, inter alia, how doctors at the Masonic Hospital in Minneapolis had found that the effectiveness of drugs can be enhanced by taking into account the time at which they are administered - or, more precisely, the patient's circadian rhythms, the "biological clock."
"And, just as RK predicted, this phenomenon is especially marked in cancer cases..." (p 159)
In Brunner's intro to With the Night Mail he writes: "I wish I had space to include the imaginary advertisements, news reports, and Letters to the Editor that he devised to accompany the story on its original outing. He must have had a lot of fun inventing his consistent, though imaginary, future world!" (p 66) Yes, such details are sorely missed by yrs truly. "I can't help noting, from the reference to "little Ada Warrleigh," that RK expected the flying aces of the future to include women... I also thoroughly approve of his assumption that was has gone "out of fashion"!" (p 66) YES!! This story was written in 1909 but set in 2000. Too bad about the war prediction not coming true, eh?
Kipling seems to be largely a man after my own heart when he writes things like: "What if that wavering carcass [of a flying vessel] had been filled with the men of the old days, each one of them taught (that is the horror of it!) that after death he would very possibly go forever to unspeakable torment?" "And scarcely a generation ago, we (one knows now that we are only our fathers re-enlarged upon the earth), we, I say, ripped and rammed and pithed to admiration." (p 77) But, no, alas, over 100 yrs later humans are still stuck w/ religion & war.
In the intro what may've been my favorite story, As Easy as A.B.C., & what've been the closest to what people these days might think of as Sci-Fi, Brunner tells us that Kipling was anti-populist. I, too, associate populism w/ mobs & w/ anti-free-thinking - but it's not as simple as that, eh?
"Confronted by a bald statement like "Too much dam' Democracy!", one can be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that the author was in favor of authoritarian rule, even perhaps dictatorship.
"That isn't quite the way of it...
"What RK did very deeply distrust was what we would now call populism: shameless manipulation of the public to provide a veneer of respectability for the seizure and misues of power. he knew about mobs, and the many-headed monsters they become. In India he had seen religious riots between Muslim and Hindu; he had lived in America at a time when lynch law was till common, and regarded it as a betrayal of the ideals his wife's country was supposed to stand for." (p 87)
From this, Brunner concludes that Kipling was what some might today call a "Libertarian". That term, however, has somewhat substantially different meanings in the US, eg, as opposed to Spain. From the story itself:
"Dragomiroff leaned forward to give him a light. "Certainly," said the white-bearded Russian, "the Planet has taken all the precautions against crowds for the past hundred years. What is our total population today? Six hundred million, we hope; five hundred, we think; but - but if next year's census shows more than four hundred and fifty, I myself will eat all the extra little babies. We have cut the birthrate out - right out! For a long time we have said to Almighty God, 'Thank You, Sir, but we do not much like Your game of life, so we will not play.'"
""Anyhow," said Arnott defiantly, "men live a century apiece on the average now."
""Oh, that is quite well! I am rich - you are rich - we are all rich and happy because we are so few and we live so long. Only I think Almighty God He will remember what the Planet was like in the time of Crowds and the Plague." (p 91)
This story's prescience partially centers around its having light & sound used as weapons. This, of course, is becoming more & more standard practice w/ the police state. Brunner's intro to The Eye of Allah contains this: "The next section of the conversation masterfully conveys what it must have been like in the late Middle Ages to live with a sort of imaginary Thought Police inside your head - a predicament many people still suffer from today." (p 138) INDEED! As the Street Ratbags say: "Evict the ruling class from yr mental real estate!" (for more on this listen to the WMBR track (#1) here: http://archive.org/details/Radio1999 )
""I'm no doctor," John returned, "but I'd say Apuleius in all these years might have been betrayed by his copyists. They take short cuts to save 'emselves trouble. Put case that Apuleius wrote the soul seems to leave the body laughing, after this poison. There's not three copyists in five (my judgment) would not leave out the 'seems to.' For who'd question Apuleius? if it seemed so to him, so it must be." (p 151)
Ah, yes, another instance of Kipling's prescience: even in the Middle Ages, there's suspicion of the 'mass' media of cutting corners. All in all, these stories were too '19th century' for me - even tho most of them were written in the 20th. As w/ music & art, it's the rare pre-20th century product that can appeal to my current standards. Nevertheless, I'm glad I read it. Now to Brunner!
Rudyard Kipling & John Brunner's
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - January 29, 2013
I read this largely b/c I've been preoccupied w/ authors I read as a kid & w/ bks that're take-offs of other bks. As a child I read Kipling's The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, & Captains Courageous. I've been planning to read a take-off on the latter called Captains Outrageous & reading this Kipling SF bk seemed like a good transition. I lost interest in Kipling when I was very young except for, perhaps, an enduring love for the feral narrative exemplified by The Jungle Book & didn't really have any high hopes for this bk - probably b/c Kipling's association w/ British colonized India overly associates him w/ imperialism for me. Nonetheless, I hoped I'd find it an astonishing surprise.. but I didn't.
However, the editor, John Brunner, purveys an infectious enthusiasm & gives valuable scholarly intros to each story. In fact, I liked Brunner's input so much I went out & bought the 6 bks I cd find by him at local used bookseller. Even tho his is a name I've known for decades, I've never read anything by him. A capsule review from the Washington Post Book World on the back cover has this to say: "The equal of Wells and the superior of Verne". Well! Them's fightin' words - & I can't say I agree. SO, I went out & got 8 Verne bks today - none of wch had I previously heard of. 1st off, Wells & Verne were novelists & Kipling's SF is all short stories - so such comparisons are ridiculous.
Most of these Kipling stories strike me as less fantastic, wch is what much Verne & Wells is, & more short excursions inspired by studies of specific technical details. Kipling's preoccupation w/ what was then fairly new technology gets him into travel stories. But even there I think Verne, particularly, was way ahead of him. Who Kipling reminds me of the most is Poe & there's a bk called The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe that I think wd be worth reading in comparison. But Poe was writing 50 or 60 yrs before Kipling. STILL, I enjoyed these stories somewhat & was glad to read them given that I'd previously thought of Kipling as more of an adventure writer.
Brunner's bio intro made me like Kipling all the more. The 1st paragraph reads:
"In a book by David Frost entitled I Could Have Kicked Myself, a compilation of decisions that their makers lived to regret, it is asserted that in 1869 the editor of the San Francisco examiner sacked Rudyard Kipling from his job as a cub reporter, saying, "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."
"Which was, I suppose, scarcely surprising, since at the time RK was rather less than five years old." (p ix)
"He was the first British author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature" [..] "He was twice offered, twice refused,a knighthood." (p ix) That latter makes me trust & like him more - even w/o knowing his reasons. "To the end of his days he retained his admiration, dating from his late teens, for the tough hard-headed individualist" (p xi) I can relate to that. "He was made much of in London, but despite his many acquaintances felt desperately lonely until he fell in with a young American named Wolcott Balestier. They became close friends and even collaborated on a novel, The Naulahka." (p xi) That got me curious, not that many writers collaborate, I'd like to read it. Kipling settled on his wife's family's estate in "Vermont. The next few years ensured that America became the second greatest influence on his work, after India." (p xi) Didn't know that!
"[H]e was so famous and indeed so beloved a writer that when, at the same time, Pope Leo XIII also fell ill, the Pall Mall Gazette issued posters with the headline KIPLING AND POPE - in that order." (p xii) I don't think these stories are what put him in that category. "He was a baffling, paradoxical man: fiercely patriotic, yet among the keenest and most unrelenting critics of his country; an advocate of Empire, who made no secret of his lifelong affection and respect for those whom others casually dismissed as "wogs" or worse; a man of letters whose greatest admiration was reserved for men of action" (p xiii)
In the 1st story, "A Matter of Fact", there's casual mention of "raining frogs" - something I expect more from Charles Fort. Has anyone reading this ever seen a rain of frogs? I haven't.. but I'd like to.. An interesting twist in this 1st story is that there's pity for the sea serpent's travails rather than terror & repulsion. This 1st story, again, reminds me of Poe - but the 2nd & 3rd stories use anthropomorphosis of machines to make technical description more entertaining - & I don't think Poe wd've done that:
""Good business," said the high-pressure cylinder. "Whack her up, boys. They've given us five pounds more steam"; and he began humming the first bars of "Said the Young Obadiah to the Old Obadiah," which, as you may have noticed, is a pet tune among engines not built for high speed. Racing liners with twin-screws sing "The Turking Patrol" and the overture to the "Bronze Horse," and "Madame Angot," till something goes wrong, and then they render Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," with variations.
""You'll learn a song of your own some fine day," said the Steam, as he flew up the foghorn for one last bellow." (p 27)
TB features in 2 or 3 of the stories - showing how prevalent, & incurable, it was in Kipling's day. Spiritism is given an interesting twist in a story where Keats is channelled or paralleled under similar conditions to Keats' own - as an analog to radio. & in Unprofessional, Kipling takes a similar hypothetical stand vis a vis astronomy as I do in my 1st bk (in wch I wrote: "anything is a microcosm of everything / therefore, 1 can read a palm / (e g) / & derive the same info as if reading everything / re / astrology, / 1 can believe in a certain type of unity of the elements considered / & use some overt aspects of things whose significance is determined X intensity, / gravity / (e g), / as an implicational representative of interactive effects"). Brunner introduces this story thusly:
"The said program reported, inter alia, how doctors at the Masonic Hospital in Minneapolis had found that the effectiveness of drugs can be enhanced by taking into account the time at which they are administered - or, more precisely, the patient's circadian rhythms, the "biological clock."
"And, just as RK predicted, this phenomenon is especially marked in cancer cases..." (p 159)
In Brunner's intro to With the Night Mail he writes: "I wish I had space to include the imaginary advertisements, news reports, and Letters to the Editor that he devised to accompany the story on its original outing. He must have had a lot of fun inventing his consistent, though imaginary, future world!" (p 66) Yes, such details are sorely missed by yrs truly. "I can't help noting, from the reference to "little Ada Warrleigh," that RK expected the flying aces of the future to include women... I also thoroughly approve of his assumption that was has gone "out of fashion"!" (p 66) YES!! This story was written in 1909 but set in 2000. Too bad about the war prediction not coming true, eh?
Kipling seems to be largely a man after my own heart when he writes things like: "What if that wavering carcass [of a flying vessel] had been filled with the men of the old days, each one of them taught (that is the horror of it!) that after death he would very possibly go forever to unspeakable torment?" "And scarcely a generation ago, we (one knows now that we are only our fathers re-enlarged upon the earth), we, I say, ripped and rammed and pithed to admiration." (p 77) But, no, alas, over 100 yrs later humans are still stuck w/ religion & war.
In the intro what may've been my favorite story, As Easy as A.B.C., & what've been the closest to what people these days might think of as Sci-Fi, Brunner tells us that Kipling was anti-populist. I, too, associate populism w/ mobs & w/ anti-free-thinking - but it's not as simple as that, eh?
"Confronted by a bald statement like "Too much dam' Democracy!", one can be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that the author was in favor of authoritarian rule, even perhaps dictatorship.
"That isn't quite the way of it...
"What RK did very deeply distrust was what we would now call populism: shameless manipulation of the public to provide a veneer of respectability for the seizure and misues of power. he knew about mobs, and the many-headed monsters they become. In India he had seen religious riots between Muslim and Hindu; he had lived in America at a time when lynch law was till common, and regarded it as a betrayal of the ideals his wife's country was supposed to stand for." (p 87)
From this, Brunner concludes that Kipling was what some might today call a "Libertarian". That term, however, has somewhat substantially different meanings in the US, eg, as opposed to Spain. From the story itself:
"Dragomiroff leaned forward to give him a light. "Certainly," said the white-bearded Russian, "the Planet has taken all the precautions against crowds for the past hundred years. What is our total population today? Six hundred million, we hope; five hundred, we think; but - but if next year's census shows more than four hundred and fifty, I myself will eat all the extra little babies. We have cut the birthrate out - right out! For a long time we have said to Almighty God, 'Thank You, Sir, but we do not much like Your game of life, so we will not play.'"
""Anyhow," said Arnott defiantly, "men live a century apiece on the average now."
""Oh, that is quite well! I am rich - you are rich - we are all rich and happy because we are so few and we live so long. Only I think Almighty God He will remember what the Planet was like in the time of Crowds and the Plague." (p 91)
This story's prescience partially centers around its having light & sound used as weapons. This, of course, is becoming more & more standard practice w/ the police state. Brunner's intro to The Eye of Allah contains this: "The next section of the conversation masterfully conveys what it must have been like in the late Middle Ages to live with a sort of imaginary Thought Police inside your head - a predicament many people still suffer from today." (p 138) INDEED! As the Street Ratbags say: "Evict the ruling class from yr mental real estate!" (for more on this listen to the WMBR track (#1) here: http://archive.org/details/Radio1999 )
""I'm no doctor," John returned, "but I'd say Apuleius in all these years might have been betrayed by his copyists. They take short cuts to save 'emselves trouble. Put case that Apuleius wrote the soul seems to leave the body laughing, after this poison. There's not three copyists in five (my judgment) would not leave out the 'seems to.' For who'd question Apuleius? if it seemed so to him, so it must be." (p 151)
Ah, yes, another instance of Kipling's prescience: even in the Middle Ages, there's suspicion of the 'mass' media of cutting corners. All in all, these stories were too '19th century' for me - even tho most of them were written in the 20th. As w/ music & art, it's the rare pre-20th century product that can appeal to my current standards. Nevertheless, I'm glad I read it. Now to Brunner!
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January 19, 2025"Unprofessional" by Rudyard Kipling - one man of a set of friends inherits a lot of money, and so he sets them up in doing research, seemingly to find the connections between the influence of the stars on minds and bodies... Gads, this thing was almost unreadable! I'm pretty good with dialects and slang and the like but I could barely follow the first few pages, as Kipling indulges in "naturalistic" sentences that are barely trackable. And it goes on, it becomes even harder to parse - "tides" from stellar energies affecting biological samples, which then lead one subject to convulsion and another to suicide? Pass.
November 4, 2016
Awesome, awesome writing! I particularly enjoyed the stories anthropomorphizing the ship and the train. This guy had vision and imagination galore! I agree with editor John Brunner that his story about"too much democracy" is misunderstood--it's difficult to understand his meaning.
November 8, 2016
Highlights: "A Matter of Fact," "The Ship that Found Herself," "In the Same Boat."
January 27, 2011
In many ways, the forefather to writers such as Neil Gaiman. I discovered Gaiman several years ago, and although the two writers have their own distinct voices, once I started to read Kipling I found that they share the same joy, spirit and imagination when it comes to fantasy writing. Recommended.
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June 28, 2017Contents: (note: original publication dates for the stories as stated in The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling )
With the Night Mail (1909)
Unprofessional (1932)
The Ship That Found Herself (1898)
The Fairies' Siege (1901) poem
The Eye of Allah (1926)
In the Same Boat (1917)
As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
A Matter of Fact (1893)
"Wireless" (1904)
.007 (1898)
With the Night Mail (1909)
Unprofessional (1932)
The Ship That Found Herself (1898)
The Fairies' Siege (1901) poem
The Eye of Allah (1926)
In the Same Boat (1917)
As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
A Matter of Fact (1893)
"Wireless" (1904)
.007 (1898)
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