With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. by Rudyard Kipling
"With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D." by Rudyard Kipling is a science fiction novella published in 1905. Set in the early 21st century, the story follows a postal worker on a night airship run to Quebec aboard Postal Packet 162. The crew encounters a failing vessel, navigates a violent storm, and witnesses a dramatic rescue operation—all under the watchful coordination of the Aerial Board of Control, a supranational organization
managing global airship traffic. This pioneering tale remarkably anticipated modern air-traffic control and influenced generations of science fiction writers. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Leyendecker, Frank X., 1877-1924 |
| Illustrator | 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) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_the_Night_Mail |
| Credits |
Produced by Stephen Hope, Carla Foust, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Aeronautics -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 29135 |
| Release Date | Jun 16, 2009 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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