"As Easy as A.B.C.; A Tale of 2150 A.D."

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Title	"As Easy as A.B.C.; A Tale of 2150 A.D."
Year for Search	1912
Authors	Kipling, [Joseph] Rudyard(1865-1936)
Tertiary Authors	Kipling, Rudyard
Secondary Title	London Magazine
Volume / Edition	28
Pagination	3-11, 163-72
Date Published	March - April 1912
Keywords	English author, Male author
Annotation	The future is presented with both eutopian and dystopian elements depending on one'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.
Additional Publishers	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).
Holding Institutions	O, PSt
Author Note	(1865-1936)
Full Text	1912 Kipling, [Joseph] Rudyard (1865-1936). “As Easy as A.B.C.; A Tale of 2150 A.D.” London Magazine 28 (March - April 1912): 3-11, 163-72. 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). O, PSt The future is presented with both eutopian and dystopian elements depending on one’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 1905 Kipling, which is, in effect, Part I.