With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. and As Easy as A.B.C.
SHE: Do you like Kipling? HE: I don't know, I've never Kippled! If you've never read Rudyard Kipling's science fiction, then you've never Kippled.Having achieved international fame with The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Kim, and his Just So Stories, in 1905 Kipling serialized a thrilling science fiction novella, With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D, in which the reader learns - while following the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather - about a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control, which enforces a rigid system of command and control not only in the skies (which are increasingly crowded with every manner…
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Weitere Autoren: De Abaitua, Matthew (Solist) / Sterling, Bruce (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-935869-52-8
- EAN: 9781935869528
- Produktnummer: 12465145
- Verlag: Hilobooks
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Masse: H19.0 cm x B12.6 cm x D1.2 cm 146 g
- Auflage: Anniversary
- Reihenbandnummer: 02
- Gewicht: 146
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Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book and Kim, also wrote two dystopian science fiction tales. With the Night Mail (1905) and As Easy As A. B. C. (1912) are set on a 21st century Earth ruled from the skies by the worldwide Aerial Board of Control.Matthew De Abaitua's debut novel The Red Men was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His book The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars is published by Hamish Hamilton.
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