# With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.

_(Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)_

By Rudyard Kipling.

"With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D." by Rudyard Kipling is a science fiction novella published in 1905. Set in the early 21st century, the story follows a postal worker on a night airship run to Quebec aboard Postal Packet 162. The crew encounters a failing vessel, navigates a violent storm, and witnesses a dramatic rescue operation—all under the watchful coordination of the Aerial Board of Control, a supranational organization managing global airship traffic. This pioneering tale remarkably anticipated modern air-traffic control and influenced generations of science fiction writers. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Illustrator: Frank X. Leyendecker
- Illustrator: Henry Reuterdahl
- Subjects: Science fiction; Aeronautics -- Fiction

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