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The way the future used to be
5. Juni 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
Take the manliest of Kipling men, the kind you might find at sea battling the dangers of wind and wave. Throw in the details of hardware that so many such men take pride in, whether it be guns, engines, sails, or rails. Now, mount all that on a blimp and set it off on a wild ride.
Mighty airships ply the skies of Kipling's distant future, having long since elbowed heavier-than-air craft into irrelevance. Tramp steamers (uh, airships) sail too, almost as much a hazard to traffic as to themselves. Navigation signals (resembling lightbouses more than anything else) guide our bold dirigible crews on their critical missions of rescue, mail delivery, and pretty much anything else involving moving men and material over distances. And, to keep it all moving smoothly, something like a world government has taken charge of the airways and their traffic.
Seen through today's eyes, this has quaint camp value like that of Doc Smith and other earnest chroniclers of future heroism. As an amusing addition, Kipling append a set of advertisements from that future era, offers of service or employment, airships and parts sought or sold, and navigational updates from the central traffic command. Interesting in itself, this also gives perspective on predicting the future and on just how strongly the future resists being predicted.
-- wiredweird
Mighty airships ply the skies of Kipling's distant future, having long since elbowed heavier-than-air craft into irrelevance. Tramp steamers (uh, airships) sail too, almost as much a hazard to traffic as to themselves. Navigation signals (resembling lightbouses more than anything else) guide our bold dirigible crews on their critical missions of rescue, mail delivery, and pretty much anything else involving moving men and material over distances. And, to keep it all moving smoothly, something like a world government has taken charge of the airways and their traffic.
Seen through today's eyes, this has quaint camp value like that of Doc Smith and other earnest chroniclers of future heroism. As an amusing addition, Kipling append a set of advertisements from that future era, offers of service or employment, airships and parts sought or sold, and navigational updates from the central traffic command. Interesting in itself, this also gives perspective on predicting the future and on just how strongly the future resists being predicted.
-- wiredweird
A prophet ahead of his time
11. April 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Given the world's energy and pollution concerns the age of airships, or dirigibles, may very well be upon us. I've recently read several articles on how they are being constructed to move equipment and supplies when time is not an issue and economy and size of load is. The rising cost of fuel may bring back the airship as the preferred means of passenger travel in the not too distant future so this story may be more accurate than may presume. In any case it is a darn good story just in it's own right, and I highly recommend it to the fellow science fiction fan.
Ground-Breaking SF
13. September 2011
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Kipling had a relatively revolutionary method of story-telling that he developed in his Indian stories. Where his contemporaries would go into pages of background just in case you were ignorant of their setting or subject, Kipling figured what the average reader knew and would need to know of his foreign setting, and did not choke up his stories with infodumps (as we now call them).
In "With the Night Mail," he brought this technique to science fiction. Before this, characters would stop and explain everything to each other, or the author would stop the story to explain everything in far more detail than necessary. WtNM pioneered the way that science fiction would normally come to be written and read thirty years later: feeding in information sidelong and letting the reader built up the image of the world.
This is great speculation, great story-telling, and a rattling good read. It is one of the original sources of steampunk retrofuturism. The gas-impoverished world may yet come to dirigibles replacing gas-hog planes, with pillars of light beaming from earth to sky as navigation points if we can't keep our navsats aloft.
The kicker is that, after giving us a typical adventure story of the year 2000, he went on to invent all the ads that would go in the magazine in which it appeared!
Brilliant fun, and not to be missed.
In "With the Night Mail," he brought this technique to science fiction. Before this, characters would stop and explain everything to each other, or the author would stop the story to explain everything in far more detail than necessary. WtNM pioneered the way that science fiction would normally come to be written and read thirty years later: feeding in information sidelong and letting the reader built up the image of the world.
This is great speculation, great story-telling, and a rattling good read. It is one of the original sources of steampunk retrofuturism. The gas-impoverished world may yet come to dirigibles replacing gas-hog planes, with pillars of light beaming from earth to sky as navigation points if we can't keep our navsats aloft.
The kicker is that, after giving us a typical adventure story of the year 2000, he went on to invent all the ads that would go in the magazine in which it appeared!
Brilliant fun, and not to be missed.
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