More on Kipling’s “A.B.C.” world, from his “With The Night Mail”, which I’ve mused on before at Tentaclii.

Stories in John Brunner’s collection of Kipling’s SF, here listed in the book’s order and linked to the stories at the Kipling Society…

“A Matter of Fact”.
“The Ship That Found Herself”.
“.007”.
“Wireless”.
“With the Night Mail”.
“As Easy as A.B.C.” (partial sequel to “Night Mail”).
“In the Same Boat”.

The SF Encyclopedia also talks of the Kipling collections The Day’s Work and Many Inventions. Going through the Kipling Society summaries I find that the first of these books had two ship / sea stories adjacent to the technical steampunk ‘air power / A.B.C.’ world depicted in the seminal “Night Mail”, “The Devil and the Deep Sea” and “Bread upon the Waters”. In the second there are another two in this vein, “Judson and the Empire” and “The Disturber of Traffic”. Not SF, but they might be tweaked into being A.B.C. tales?

Others with more SF tinges, suggested by the SF Encyclopedia and passing the test of my checking against the Kipling Society summaries, are “The Finest Story in the World” (past lives), “The Army of a Dream” (part one) and “The Army of a Dream” (part two) (imagines a highly militarised society, akin to an Edwardian Starship Troopers), and the late tale from 1930 “Unprofessional” (cyclical cosmic waves affect organisms on earth). Again, all with potential to be tweaked into being A.B.C. tales.