@booklet {366, title = {"As Easy as A.B.C.; A Tale of 2150 A.D."}, howpublished = {London Magazine }, volume = {28 }, year = {1912}, note = {

Rpt. as As Easy as A. B. C. London: A.P. Watt \& Son, 1912. On the first page of the text, \“Part II\” is\ added after the title. Repub. without the subtitle in his A Diversity of Creatures (London: Macmillan, 1917), 1-44; book rpt. ed. Paul Driver (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1987), 29-57. Rpt. as \“As Easy as A.B.C. (1912)\”. In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures Letters of Travel 1892-1913 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page \& Co., 1925), 3-40 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Rpt. as \“As Easy as ABC.\” The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 33-58; and with the original title in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 165-83. Rpt. from A Diversity of Creatures in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and \“As Easy as A.B.C.\” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 91-139 with \“Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction\” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and \“Down With The People. Afterword\” by Bruce Sterling (140-44).\ 

}, month = {March - April 1912}, pages = {3-11, 163-72}, abstract = {

The future is presented with both eutopian and dystopian elements depending on one\&$\#$39;s perspective. The world is controlled by the Aerial Board of Control. People have rejected democracy and returned to an agricultural economy. A reduced birth rate means that the world population falling. See also 1909 Kipling, which is, in effect, Part I.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)} } @booklet {154, title = {"The Army of the Dream"}, howpublished = {Traffics and Discoveries}, year = {1904}, note = {

Rpt. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1987), 202-41 with notes on 334-37. Also rpt. as \“The Army of a Dream (1904).\” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page \& Co., 1925), 237-88 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Originally published in the Morning Post (July 15 - 18, 1904).\ 

}, month = {1904}, pages = {243-300}, publisher = {Macmillan}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Britain has willingly/happily adopted militarism. Set in the 1920s. Presented positively. Those who do not volunteer cannot vote.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)} }