{"id":56256,"date":"2022-08-28T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=56256"},"modified":"2022-09-03T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:31:23","slug":"new-book-copiously-annotated-and-corrected-edition-of-with-the-night-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/08\/28\/new-book-copiously-annotated-and-corrected-edition-of-with-the-night-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Copiously annotated and corrected edition of “With The Night Mail”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly published, my labour-of-love “With the Night Mail”, annotated edition<\/a>. Available now as a .PDF file. $2 on Gumroad, but the first 30 Tentaclii<\/em> readers can get it free by using coupon-code tentaclii<\/em> at the checkout. Or if you’ve feeling generous, you can pay the $2 and skip the coupon. I’m hoping that this Gumroad ‘formula’ may eventually start to produce a much-needed bit of extra income.<\/p>\n

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This is the best version of Kipling’s famous “With The Night Mail” (1905), the first ‘hard’ science-fiction story. Still a fabulous steampunk read, today.<\/p>\n

Here newly and fully annotated with 4,600 words of precise scholarly annotations. Several important new discoveries are made, including the identity of “little Ada” — she was a real pilot! All four earliest versions have been checked and cross-referenced, and the modern corrupted text has been carefully cleaned. Differences between editions are noted in the footnotes.<\/p>\n

There are 145 footnotes, explaining the technology, lingo, and places. One footnote even discovers a long ‘new’ section of dialogue about the risk of plague, unseen since the first publications in 1905 — and never reprinted until now!<\/p>\n

This .PDF is thus as close as we will get to a definitive version of the seminal story that launched the entire genre of hard science-fiction, and which opened the highly influential Gollancz yellow-jacket survey anthology One Hundred Years of Science Fiction<\/em> (1969).<\/p>\n

As a bonus, there are four new full-page colour illustrations including one of “George”. This labour-of-love e-book is 28 pages in total, delivered to you as a .PDF file. It may interest RPG gamers, as well as scholars and readers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you can tell, I’ve at last been able to see all four of the earliest editions. And my gosh… many<\/em> differences! And with errors in places, in some modern editions, even including a handful in the free version on the site of The Kipling Society. Anyway, regular Tentaclii<\/em> readers know my approach… copious attention to detail, deep historical research, resulting in many fascinating footnotes. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newly published, my labour-of-love “With the Night Mail”, annotated edition. Available now as a .PDF file. $2 on Gumroad, but …<\/p>\n

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