Editing Rudyard Kipling (section)

====Speculative fiction====
[[File:William Strang The author Rudyard Kipling.jpg|thumb|upright|Kipling as seen in 1901 by [[William Strang]]]]
Kipling wrote a number of [[speculative fiction]] short stories, including "[[The Army of a Dream]]", in which he sought to show a more efficient and responsible army than the hereditary bureaucracy of England at the time, and two [[science fiction]] stories: "[[With the Night Mail]]" (1905) and "As Easy As A.B.C." (1912). Both were set in the 21st century in Kipling's [[Aerial Board of Control]] universe. They read like modern [[hard science fiction]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Bennett, Arnold |title=Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908–1911 |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1917}}</ref> and introduced<ref>"[https://blog.archive.org/2007/07/30/airships-and-balloons/ Airships and Balloons]", archive.org, 30 July 2007.</ref> the literary technique known as [[indirect exposition]], which would later become one of science fiction writer [[Robert Heinlein]]'s hallmarks. This technique is one that Kipling picked up in India, and used to solve the problem of his English readers not understanding much about Indian society when writing ''The Jungle Book''.<ref name=lerner>{{cite web |url=http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/facts_scifi.htm |title=A Master of Our Art: Rudyard Kipling and modern Science Fiction |author=Fred Lerner |website=The Kipling Society |access-date=5 March 2020 |archive-date=21 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221194333/http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/facts_scifi.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>