ISBN: 9781935869528 - with the night mail: two yarns about the aerial board of control (4 risultati)

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Paperback: 7½" x 5". Condizione: Near Fine. 2012 Edition. © 1905 & 1912: Two yarns about the Aerial Board Of Control by Rudyard Kipling. 1st printing of 2012 edition with an introduction by Matthew De Abaitua and an afterword by Bruce Sterling. 2nd in the 'Radium Age Science Fiction' series of books:- Synopsis: Rudyard Kipling's 'With The Night Mail' follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling the perfect storm. Between London and Quebec we learn that a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control (A.B.C.) now enforces a technocratic system of command and control not only in the skies but in world affairs. A follow-up story, 'As Easy As A.B.C.' recounts what happens when agitators in Chicago demand the return of democracy. 'With The Night Mail' is set in 2000, and it first appeared in 1905; 2012 marks the centennial of the first publication of 'As Easy As A.B.C.':- Review(s): "It is a glittering essay in the sham-technical; and real imagination, together with a tremendous play of fancy, is shown in the invention of illustrative detail" - Arnold Bennett, 1917 / "A most remarkable little story. It is rather a fascist picture which Kipling gives us" - Norbert Weiner, 'The Human Use Of Human Beings', 1950 / "An amazing tour-de-force of inspired genius - Kipling in 1905, is doing things that science fiction as a genre wouldn't achieve until Robert Heinlein arrived in the late 1940s" - Bruce Sterling:- (original cost $12.95). Cover Art: Michael Lewy (illustratore).…

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