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"With the Night Mail" is a 1905 science fiction novella by Rudyard Kipling. Setting [ edit ] The story is set in the early 21st century and describes the Aerial Board of Control , a fictional supranational organization dedicated to the control and aid of airship traffic across the whole world.
Mail-packets are supposed, under the Conference rules, to have the five-thousand-foot lanes to themselves, but the foreigner in a hurry is apt to take liberties with English air. “No. 162” lifts to a long-drawn wail of the breeze in the fore-flange of the rudder and we make Valencia (white, green, white) at a safe 7000 feet, dipping our beam to an incoming Washington packet.
Jun 16, 2009 · The Antwerp Night Mail makes her signal and rises between two racing clouds far to port, her flanks blood-red in the glare of Sheerness Double Light. The gale will have us over the North Sea in half an hour, but Captain Purnall lets her go composedly—nosing to every point of the compass as she rises.
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This story was first published in the United States of America in McClure’s Magazine for November 1905, and in the United Kingdom in The Windsor Magazine for December 1905; it was collected in Actions and Reactions (1909), Scribners Edition Volume XXIV, the Burwash Edition volume VIII, the Sussex Editionvolume VIII, and various Pocket and Uniform E...
It is the year 2000, and – powered by ‘Fleury’s Ray’ – a host of transatlantic aircraft, most of them lighter-than-air (airships), are flying across the air waves. The narrator is on board a mail plane, en route from London to Quebec. The technicalities of the journey, the expertise of the crew, the radio communications they use, and the internatio...
This is another flight of fancy which ORG ( Vol. 6, p. 2826) has treated very seriously, with much important information on lighter-than-air flight and the mechanics of the craft concerned. This Editor, writing in 2006, takes the view, however, that Kipling made this up as he went along, adapting procedures and expressions from existing modes of tr...
In the view of many modern writers of Science Fiction, Kipling was a pioneer of the genre. Seed Fred :Lerner’s essay A Master of Our Art. See also: The Finest Story in the World A Matter of Fact .007 The Ship that Found Herself the Army of a Dream Wireless Cold Iron A Doctor of Medicine The Knife and the Naked Chalk As Easy as ABC In the Same Boat ...
Charles Carrington(p. 374) draws attention to Kipling’s: See also Fred Lerner’s article in this Guide on Rudyard Kipling considered as a Science Fiction writer, and The Cambridge Guide to Literature in Englishby Ian Ousby (1988), p. 834. [J H McG/J.R.] ©John McGivering and John Radcliffe 2020 All rights reserved
A classic science fiction story by Rudyard Kipling, set in the year 2000, about a mail plane journey across the Atlantic. Learn about the publication, the background, the critical comments, and the related works of Kipling in this comprehensive guide.
Jun 16, 2009 · Reuterdahl, Henry, 1871-1925. LoC No. 09008570. Title. With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) Credits. Produced by Stephen Hope, Carla Foust, Joseph Cooper and. the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at.
Jul 13, 2017 · With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. by Rudyard Kipling: A science fiction story set in the year 2000, where airships dominate the skies and communication is carried out through a global network of pneumatic tubes. The story follows the crew of an airship as they navigate the challenges of a futuristic world and encounter various adventures.
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Mar 17, 2017 · With the Night Mail. Rudyard Kipling. Lulu.com, Mar 17, 2017 - 64 pages. 1905 Dystopian Science Fiction, in two stories 'What under the stars are you doing here, you sky-scraping chimney-sweep?' he shouts as we two drift side by side. 'Do you know this is a Mail lane?
