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A postal worker makes a night run to Quebec on the airship Postal Packet 162 with captain Purnall and his crew. During the run, they encounter another airship in the lane reserved for mail but that is losing altitude. A mark boat is called for assistance, but it responds it cannot quit station.
16 giu 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.
The mail-clerks are sorting the Winnipeg, Calgary, and Medicine Hat bags; but there is a pack of cards ready on the table. Suddenly a bell thrills; the engineers run to the turbine-valves and stand by; but the spectacled slave of the Ray in the U-tube never lifts his head.
- Publication
- The Story
- Background
- Kipling and Science Fiction
- Some Critical Comments
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
16 giu 2009 · With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. by Rudyard Kipling. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Science Fiction. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
- 09008570
- Reuterdahl, Henry, 1871-1925
6 mag 2010 · With the night mail : a story of 2,000 A.D. : together with extracts from the contemporary magazine in which it appeared : Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
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