{"id":63989,"date":"2024-05-05T02:54:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T02:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=63989"},"modified":"2024-05-03T11:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:23:58","slug":"kiplings-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/kiplings-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Kipling’s SF"},"content":{"rendered":"

More on Kipling’s “A.B.C.” world, from his “With The Night Mail”, which I’ve mused on before at Tentaclii<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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

The SF Encyclopedia<\/em> also talks of the Kipling collections The Day’s Work<\/em> and Many Inventions<\/em>. 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”<\/a> and “Bread upon the Waters”<\/a>. In the second there are another two in this vein, “Judson and the Empire”<\/a> and “The Disturber of Traffic”<\/a>. Not SF, but they might be tweaked into being A.B.C. tales?<\/p>\n

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

More on Kipling’s “A.B.C.” world, from his “With The Night Mail”, which I’ve mused on before at Tentaclii. Stories in …<\/p>\n

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