Title: With the Night Mail

Title: With the Night Mail Title Record # 68044
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Date: 1905-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Aerial Board of Control
Series Number: 1
Webpages: kiplingsociety.co.uk
Language: English

Note:

The 1905 texts differ slightly from each other and that augmented in 1909. Lead sentences: • "At 21 o'clock of a gusty winter's night I stood on the lower stages of the G. P. O. outward mail tower." (McClure's) • "At 9.30 p.m. of a windy winter's night I stood on the lower stages of the G.P.O. Outward Mail Tower." (Windsor) • "At nine o'clock of a gusty winter's night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G. P. O. outward mail towers." (Doubleday, Page (US), 1909; page 3) Note: "With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D." may be considered the title of the 1909 version of the narrative alone. See p[1]; compare title page (which shows "A. D").
Expanded 1909 as "With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together With Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which it Appeared)" --probably also novelette length-- which comprises the 1905 narrative lightly revised and other material purportedly published in a 2000 A.D. magazine; published in 1909 with new illustrations by Frank X. Leyendecker (and one old one by H. Reuterdahl).
The narrative, any version of its text, may appear alone in some of the reported publications after 1909, or not.
Use of the subtitle "A Story of 2000 A.D." in a later publication strongly implies that the narrative appears in its lightly revised 1909 version, whether or not it is augmented as in 1909. The lead sentence of the narrative may be decisive (far above).

Synopsis:

The story of an overnight journey by air from London to Quebec, set in a world governed by the Aerial Board of Control.
The 1905 magazine publications show headings, below the title and credit(s), that suggest the story is from year 2025 (McClure's, US) and state that it is from 2147 (Windsor, UK).

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Translations

Year	Title
1909	With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.
2007	With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 AD
2009	With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A. D

Year	Language	Title
1961	French	Par la malle de nuit
1965	Italian	Col postale di notte (Una storia del 2000 dopo Cristo)
1970^ⓘTranslated by José Maria Aroca	Spanish	Con el correo nocturno
1986^ⓘTranslated by Marco Pensante	Italian	Con la posta notturna
1988^ⓘTranslated by Heinz Koblischke	German	Mit der Nachtpost
1988^ⓘTranslated by Giacomo Prampolini	Italian	Col postale di notte
1989^ⓘTranslated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck	German	Mit der Nachtpost

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
McClure's, November 1905	1905-11-00	ed. Editors of McClure's	The S. S. McClure Co.		$0.10^?$: US dollar	116	octavo^?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued	mag
The Windsor Magazine, December 1905	1905-12-00	ed. Editors of The Windsor Magazine				210	unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	mag
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction	1969-06-00	ed. Damon Knight	Gollancz	0-575-00329-4	£1.60^?£: UK pound	368	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction	1970-05-00	ed. Damon Knight	Gollancz	0-575-00329-4	£1.60^?£: UK pound	368	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction, Book One	1972-03-00	ed. Damon Knight	Pan Books	0-330-02982-7	£0.30^?£: UK pound	x+ 226	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Wondermakers	1972-05-00	ed. Robert Hoskins	Fawcett Premier	M561	$0.95^?$: US dollar	351	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Visions of Tomorrow	1976-11-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Pocket Books	0-671-80775-7	$1.95^?$: US dollar	390	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Charles Moll
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction, Book One	1977-08-00	ed. Damon Knight	Pan Books	0-330-02982-7	£0.70^?£: UK pound	x+ 226	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Bob Layzell
From Gilgamesh to Wells	1977-09-00	ed. James Gunn	Mentor / New American Library	0-451-61578-6 / ME1578	$2.25^?$: US dollar	404	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
A Separate Star: A Science Fiction Tribute to Rudyard Kipling	1989-05-00	ed. David Drake, Sandra Miesel	Baen	0-671-69832-X	$3.50^?$: US dollar	278	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Steve Hickman
John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction	1992-10-00	Rudyard Kipling	Tor	0-312-85355-6	$17.95^?$: US dollar	178	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	David R. Deitrick
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling	1994-05-00	Rudyard Kipling	Citadel Twilight	0-8065-1508-2	$9.95^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 178	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Kevin Kelly
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF	1994-07-00	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Tor	0-312-85062-X	$35.00^?$: US dollar	990+ [2]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Carol Russo
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF	1994-10-00	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Tor / SFBC	05435	$17.98^?$: US dollar	990	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	John Berkey
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF	1994-10-00	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Orbit	1-85723-271-2	£25.00^?£: UK pound	990	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	John Berkey
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF	1997-09-00	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Orb	0-312-85509-5	$27.95^?$: US dollar	990	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Kipling's Science Fiction	1998-06-00	Rudyard Kipling	G. K. Hall & Co. (G.K. Hall Large Print Science Fiction Series)	0-7838-0169-6	$25.95^?$: US dollar	248	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
From Gilgamesh to Wells	2002-11-00	ed. James Gunn	Scarecrow Press	0-8108-4414-1	$29.95^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 349	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
With the Night Mail and As Easy As A.B.C.	2012-05-22	Rudyard Kipling	HiLoBooks (Radium Age Science Fiction #2)	978-1-935869-52-8	$12.95^?$: US dollar	144	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Michael Lewy
Wondermakers	date unknown	ed. Robert Hoskins	Fawcett Crest	M1826	$0.95^?$: US dollar	351	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
From Gilgamesh to Wells	date unknown	ed. James Gunn	Scarecrow Press	978-0-8108-4414-8		xviii+ 349	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
From Gilgamesh to Wells	date unknown	ed. James Gunn	Mentor	0-451-61578-6	$2.25^?$: US dollar	404	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth

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Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years