With The Night Mail
by Rudyard Kipling
Kipling, who gained international fame in 1905 with The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Kim and His Stories Just Like It, tells a fascinating science fiction story in which the reader learns about a planetary Air Control Board that provides a rigid (increasingly crowded) command and control system, not just in the sky following the exploits of an intercontinental airship battling bad weather: A 2000 STORY AD". zeppelins in all sorts of forms), but also in world affairs. Kipling was so excited about his own utopian vision that when the story first appeared in McClure's Magazine, he was accompanied by fake ads for the airship and aviation products he wrote, as well as other clippings from Ersatz magazine. They are located at the end of the book.
