Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), the first English-language Nobel laureate in literature, is best known for The Jungle Book and Kim, but he was also a genuine science-fiction pioneer. ‘With the Night Mail’ and ‘As Easy as A.B.C.’ imagine a future world run by an airborne transport authority in convincing technical detail, and his ghost and fantasy stories are widely admired. A surprising but real ancestor of the genre.