Rudyard Kipling ~7 hr read

Kipling's story collection, including the astonishing tale of a future world run by an aerial traffic authority.

This 1917 gathering mixes Kipling's realist and comic stories with two landmark science-fiction visions: 'As Easy as A.B.C.,' where a technocratic Aerial Board of Control governs a thinly populated planet that prizes privacy above all, and its companion 'With the Night Mail.' Kipling the imperial storyteller turns out to be a startlingly prescient prophet of aviation, mass media, and technocracy. Read it for the surprising SF of a literary giant, decades ahead of its time.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).