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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-author"> <h1 class="entryTitle">Kipling, Rudyard </h1> </header><p class='tagLine'>Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=kipling_rudyard'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=kipling_rudyard'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=kipling_rudyard'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> </span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kipling_rudyard&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kipling_rudyard'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=kipling_rudyard');"> <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img></span> </div><p style='float:right; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; position: relative; top: 3px;'> <a href='/gallery.php?id=Drake-HeadsStorm.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/Drake-HeadsStorm.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1865-1936) UK journalist, poet and author known mainly for such works outside the sf field as <i>Plain Tales from the Hills</i> (coll <b>1888</b>) – which does contain some supernatural tales – and <i>Kim</i> (<b>1901</b>) [see below]; he won the <a href="/entry/nobel_prize">Nobel Prize</a> for Literature in 1907. During <a href="/entry/world_war_one">World War One</a>, a conflict he had named "The Great War" as early as 1899, he wrote a great deal of propaganda, but the loss of his son in combat darkened the rest of his life. Kipling began to publish work of genre interest with his second professional tale, "The Dream of Duncan Parrenness" (25 December 1884 <i>Civil and Military Gazette</i>), and continued intermittently to incorporate the supernatural and some sf into his shorter work for most of his career, his last story of such interest being "Unprofessional" (October 1930 <i>Saturday Review of Literature</i>). But most of his supernatural work is set in India, and was published before he was 30. Some, like "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes" (Christmas 1885 <i>Quartette</i>) and "The Phantom 'Rickshaw" (Christmas 1885 <i>Quartette</i>), are to be found in <i>The Phantom 'Rickshaw, & Other Eerie Tales</i> (coll <b>1888</b>; rev <b>1890</b>), as is <i>The Man Who Would Be King</i> (<b>1899</b>), whose protagonists plan to become rulers of Kafiristan (a genuine region in north-east Afghanistan), whose inhabitants show diffuse racial and cultural signs of being an ancient Greek <a href="/entry/lost_races">Lost Race</a>; others appear in <i>Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People</i> (coll <b>1891</b>), <i>Many Inventions</i> (coll <b>1893</b>) and the unauthorized <i>Abaft the Funnel</i> (coll <b>1909</b>) which assembles work 1888-1890. <i>The Brushwood Boy</i> (December 1895 <i>Century Magazine</i>; <b>1899</b> chap) is fantasy, based on shared dreams. Also fantasy are the various linked and unlinked animal stories assembled in <i>The Jungle Book</i> (coll <b>1894</b>) and <i>The Second Jungle Book</i> (coll <b>1895</b>), tales whose complex intensity transcends the moralistic tradition of the Beast Fable [see <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under <b>links</b> below], while <i>Just So Stories for Little Children</i> (coll <b>1902</b>) contains now-classic children's fables, beginning with "How the Whale Got his Throat" (December 1897 <i>St Nicholas</i>); the tales contributed by a wide range of writers of colour to the fantasy <a href="/entry/original_anthologies">Original Anthology</a> <i>Not So Stories</i> (anth <b>2018</b>) edited by David Thomas <a href="/entry/moore_david_thomas">Moore</a> are a sustained (and at times sympathetic) unpacking of and riposte to the <a href="/entry/imperialism">Imperialist</a> world-view that irradiates Kipling's work in general, and by inference <i>Just So Stories</i> in particular (also see <a href="/entry/race_in_sf">Race in SF</a>). Interestingly, <i>Kim</i> (<b>1901</b>), which is technically nonfantastic, has had perhaps the most significant impact of all his works on sf writers, perhaps because the elated flow of incident that carries young Kim from bliss to bliss before the shadows of Empire begin to fall – Kipling called his narrative a "naked picaresque" – clearly demonstrates the power of the "lateral fantastic" in works of exposed candour, tales with plots so magically enabled by coincidence and consanguinity that they seem <i>inherently</i> fantastic. Works manifestly influenced by <i>Kim</i> include Poul <a href="/entry/anderson_poul">Anderson</a>'s <i>The Game of Empire</i> (<b>1985</b>), Steven <a href="/entry/gould_steven">Gould</a>'s <i>7th Sigma</i> (<b>2011</b>), Robert A <a href="/entry/heinlein_robert_a">Heinlein</a>'s <i>Citizen of the Galaxy</i> (<b>1957</b>) and Tim <a href="/entry/powers_tim">Powers</a>'s <i>Declare</i> (<b>2001</b>).</p> <p><i>"They"</i> (August 1904 <i>Scribner's Magazine</i>; <b>1905</b> chap) is a ghost story. <i>Puck of Pook's Hill</i> (January-October 1906 <a href="/entry/strand_magazine_the">Strand</a>; coll of linked stories <b>1906</b>), and its sequel, <i>Rewards and Fairies</i> (1900-1910 various mags; coll of linked stories <b>1910</b>), contain a series of historical and occasionally historical-fantasy stories about the formation and growth of Britain as conveyed by Puck to two children, who visit – or more precisely are visited by – various mythical and historical figures, and who are edified by them; but then, after each encounter, are subjected to a <a href="/entry/memory_edit">Memory Edit</a>, rather nullifying a central function of the <a href="/entry/club_story">Club Story</a>, which is to provide a frame for the witnessing of what is told. A witness who forgets may be deemed no witness at all.</p> <p>In several of his late stories, all of which are complex, elliptic, highly crafted and deeply pessimistic, Kipling made some ambiguous use of supernatural principles of explanation; of these, "A Madonna of the Trenches" (September 1924 <a href="/entry/pall_mall_magazine">Pall Mall Magazine</a>) and "The Wish House" (15 October 1924 <i>Maclean's Magazine</i>) are assembled along with "The Gardener" (April 1925 <i>McCall's Magazine</i>) in <i>Debits and Credits</i> (coll <b>1926</b>), which has a claim to being his finest collection. These tales are not comfortably amenable to either sf or fantasy reading, but they demonstrate the power of hinted supernatural themes in writing of high virtuosity. <i>The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling</i> (coll <b>1987</b>) and <i>The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales</i> (<b>2000</b>) conveniently assemble this category of his output, as does <i>Kipling's Fantasy</i> (coll <b>1992</b>) edited by John <a href="/entry/brunner_john">Brunner</a>. A more recent collection which incorporates both sf and fantasy is <i>The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales</i> (coll <b>2006</b>); contents differ from the title listed above. <i>"Thy Servant a Dog": Told by Boots</i> (coll of linked stories <b>1930</b> chap; exp vt <i>"Thy Servant a Dog" and Other Dog Stories</i> <b>1933</b>) contains three <a href="/entry/dogs">Dog</a>-narrated animal fantasies of almost perverse – but quite astonishingly eloquent – intensity. <i>The Pleasure Cruise</i> (11 November 1933 <i>Morning Post</i>; <b>1933</b> chap), a short fantasy play based on <a href="/entry/lucian">Lucian</a>'s <i>Conversations in the Underworld</i>, predicts the advent of <a href="/entry/world_war_two">World War Two</a> if Germany is not resisted.</p> <p>Sf proper appears with less frequency in Kipling's work, but is not uncommon, though the complex (and sometimes fundamentally evasive) relationship of his tales to the genres they seem to obey makes it unusually difficult to fix much of his work. "At the End of the Passage" (20 July 1890 <i>Boston Herald</i>), though essentially a <a href="/entry/doppelgangers">Doppelganger</a> story that obscurely prefigures the end of Empire, turns on the notion that images are retained in the retina after death (see <a href="/entry/scientific_errors">Scientific Errors</a>; <a href="/entry/urban_legends">Urban Legends</a>); this is assembled, along with more straightforward fantasies in the "gossip tale" mode of his early work described above, in <i>Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People</i> (coll <b>1890</b>). "The Finest Story in the World" (July 1891 <i>The Contemporary Review</i>), whose narrator encounters a case of <a href="/entry/reincarnation">Reincarnation</a>, and <i>A Matter of Fact</i> (<b>1892</b> chap), about a modern sea-serpent sighting, are both assembled in <i>Many Inventions</i>, which also includes "The Lost Legion" (May 1892 <a href="/entry/strand_magazine_the">Strand Magazine</a>); all are arguably sf, or are coloured by sf.</p> <p>Other early tales include "The Ship that Found Herself" (December 1895 <a href="/entry/idler_the">Idler</a>) and ".007" (August 1897 <i>Scribner's Magazine</i>) in <i>The Day's Work</i> (coll <b>1898</b>), both dealing with the imagined, anthropomorphized thoughts of <a href="/entry/machines">Machines</a> (ship and locomotive): but it is this last collection that challenges the utility – as far as Kipling himself was concerned – of any attempt at clarifying his work by sorting it into genres. <i>The Day's Work</i>, which might almost be called a collection of linked stories, contains tales running a gamut from exhilarated "mundane" adventure through sf itself into Beast Fable [see <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under <b>links</b> below]; the whole array is far larger and more coherent than the sum of the parts, and <i>The Day's Work</i> reads in the end as a clamorous but astonishingly verisimilitudinous paean to the coordinated obedience of men to <a href="/entry/machines">Machine</a> and machine to men that made an empire – that indeed made the world – operable; and its intense focus on the geared visibility of the workings of this world clearly prefigures <a href="/entry/steampunk">Steampunk</a>. The range and versatility of the book make it as significant a collection of the nineteenth-century fantastic as any of H G <a href="/entry/wells_h_g">Wells</a>'s volumes of shorter works.</p> <p>Later tales include "Wireless" (August 1902 <i>Scribner's Magazine</i>; in <i>Traffics and Discoveries</i>, coll <b>1904</b>), in which amateur-radio experiments make <a href="/entry/communications">Communication</a> across <a href="/entry/time">Time</a> possible, linking a chemist's-shop assistant and John Keats via a kind of <a href="/entry/telepathy">Telepathy</a>; "The Army of a Dream" (15-18 June 1904 <i>Morning Post</i>; in <i>Traffics and Discoveries</i>, coll <b>1904</b>), a <a href="/entry/utopias">Utopian</a> vision of <a href="/entry/near_future">Near-Future</a> militarized England in which – prefiguring the society of Robert A <a href="/entry/heinlein_robert_a">Heinlein</a>'s <i>Starship Troopers</i> (October-November 1959 <a href="/entry/fsf">F&SF</a> as "Starship Soldier"; <b>1959</b>) – voting rights and other social privileges must be earned by volunteer service; "The House Surgeon" (September-October 1909 <i>Harper's Monthly</i>), in <i>Actions and Reactions</i> (coll <b>1909</b>), which explains a ghost in terms of <a href="/entry/psi_powers">Psi Powers</a>; "In the Same Boat" (December 1911 <i>Harper's Monthly</i>), in <i>A Diversity of Creatures</i> (coll <b>1917</b>), suggests a prenatal cause for bouts of irrational dread, not unlike the "engrams" of <a href="/entry/scientology">Scientology</a>; "The Eye of Allah" (September 1926 <a href="/entry/strand_magazine_the">Strand</a>), in <i>Debits and Credits</i>, implies the <a href="/entry/alternate_history">Alternate History</a> that is almost generated when a microscope falls into the hands of medieval English churchmen, revealing a world of "demon" animalculae and bacteria; and "Unprofessional" (October 1930 <i>Saturday Review of Literature</i>), assembled in <i>Limits and Renewals</i> (coll <b>1932</b>), suggests that planetary "tides" may affect human tissue.</p> <p>Kipling's most notable sf stories as such are perhaps <i>With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.: (Together With Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which it Appeared)</i> (first version November 1905 <a href="/entry/mcclures_magazine">McClure's</a> as "With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D."; <b>1909</b> chap) and its sequel, "'As Easy as A.B.C': A Tale of 2150 AD" (March-April 1912 <i>The London Magazine</i>), later included in <i>A Diversity of Creatures</i> (coll <b>1917</b>). Both tales revolve about the <a href="/entry/pax_aeronautica">Pax Aeronautica</a> established by the Aerial Board of Control, or A.B.C., which dominates the world. The first is a dramatized travelogue, depicting some incidents on a dirigible journey from London to Quebec (see <a href="/entry/airships">Airships</a>), and is accompanied – in both its book form and on its inclusion in <i>Actions and Reactions</i> (coll <b>1909</b>) – by an appendix of futuristic advertisements (see <a href="/entry/advertising">Advertising</a>); in the second tale – a somewhat <a href="/entry/dystopias">Dystopian</a> vision of centralized government set 150 years later – agents of the A.B.C. fly to Chicago to deal with a revolt of the local underclass, whose demands for a return of democracy have generated attacks by the rest of the population; incidental sf devices include an electrical precursor of the <a href="/entry/force_field">Force Field</a>. The <a href="/entry/pax_aeronautica">Pax Aeronautica</a> vision so vividly embodied in these stories – though not necessarily the political views they argue – is derived at least in part from H G <a href="/entry/wells_h_g">Wells</a>, and in turn influenced writers as far apart as Michael <a href="/entry/arlen_michael">Arlen</a> and Rex <a href="/entry/warner_rex">Warner</a>. Although its reprint of <i>With the Night Mail</i> is incomplete, <i>Kipling's Science Fiction</i> (coll <b>1992</b>; vt <i>The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling</i> <b>1994</b>) edited by John <a href="/entry/brunner_john">Brunner</a> is otherwise thorough in its coverage of this part of Kipling's work.</p> <p>Although Kipling was not an sf writer by any powerful inclination, his capacity to capture the essence of various storytelling modes was so intense, and his interest in the workings of the new world which he heralded (and lamented) so acute, that even the seemingly least characteristic of his works are of more than peripheral interest to the reader. [JC/DRL]</p> <p><b>see also:</b> <a href="/entry/apes_as_human">Apes as Human</a>; <a href="/entry/forgotten_futures">Forgotten Futures</a>; <a href="/entry/history_of_sf">History of SF</a>; <a href="/entry/invention">Invention</a>; <a href="/entry/kipple">Kipple</a>; <a href="/entry/military_sf">Military SF</a>; <a href="/entry/prediction">Prediction</a>; <a href="/entry/psionics">Psionics</a>; <a href="/entry/rays">Rays</a>; <a href="/entry/tractor_beam">Tractor Beam</a>; <a href="/entry/transportation">Transportation</a>.</p> <h3 id="chklst">Joseph Rudyard Kipling</h3> <p><b>born</b> Bombay (now Mumbai), India: 30 December 1865</p> <p><b>died</b> London: 18 January 1936</p> <p><b>works</b></p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kipling_rudyard&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kipling_rudyard'"></p> <p>Alan David Richards suggests in his <i>Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind</i> (<b>2007</b>), that this author's "bibliography may be the most complex of any modern writer in English." The Checklist below is of course selective in principle, and almost certainly falls short of full coverage of some titles represented here.</p> <p><b>series</b></p> <p><b>The Jungle Books</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Jungle+Book&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Jungle Book</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1894</b>) [coll of linked stories: <b>Jungle Books</b>: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Second+Jungle+Book&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Second Jungle Book</a></em> (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, <b>1895</b>) [coll of linked stories: <b>Jungle Books</b>: hb/uncredited]</li> </ul> <p><b>Puck of Pook's Hill</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Puck+of+Pook+Hill&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Puck of Pook's Hill</a></em> (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co, <b>1906</b>) [coll of linked stories: <b>Puck of Pook's Hill</b>: hb/Arthur Rackham]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rewards+and+Fairies&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rewards and Fairies</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1910</b>) [coll of linked stories: <b>Puck of Pook's Hill</b>: hb/nonpictorial]</li> </ul> <p><b>individual titles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Matter+of+Fact&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Matter of Fact</a></em> (New York: D Appleton and Co, <b>1892</b>) [story: chap: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Brushwood+Boy&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Brushwood Boy</a></em> (New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, <b>1899</b>) [story: chap: hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Man+Who+Would+Be+King&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Man Who Would Be King</a></em> (New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, <b>1899</b>) [novella: first appeared in <em>The Phantom 'Rickshaw, & Other Eerie Tales</em> (coll <b>1888</b>): hb/uncredited]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=They&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">"They"</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1905</b>) [story: chap: hb/F H Townsend]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=With+the+Night+Mail+A+Story+of+2000+A+D+&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.: (Together With Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which it Appeared)</a></em> (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co, <b>1909</b>) [novella: chap: illus/hb/Frank X Leyendecker] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=With+The+Night+Mail+and+As+Easy+As+ABC+Two&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">With The Night Mail and "As Easy As ABC": Two Yarns about the Aerial Board of Control</a></em> (no place given: HiLoBooks, <b>2012</b>) [exp vt as coll: adding the named story: afterword by Bruce <a href="/entry/sterling_bruce">Sterling</a>: in the publisher's <b>Radium Age Science Fiction</b> series: pb/Michael Lewy]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Pleasure+Cruise&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Pleasure Cruise</a></em> (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, <b>1933</b>) [play: chap: probably so published to protect copyright: pb/nonpictorial]</li> </ul> <p><b>collections published in the author's lifetime</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Plain+Tales+from+the+Hills&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Plain Tales from the Hills</a></em> (Calcutta, India: Thacker, Spink and Co, <b>1888</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Phantom+Rickshaw+and+Other+Eerie+Tales&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Phantom 'Rickshaw, & Other Eerie Tales</a></em> (Allahabad, India: A H Wheeler and Co, <b>1888</b>) [coll: pb/] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Phantom+Rickshaw+and+Other+Tales&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales</a></em> (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, <b>1890</b>) [coll: rev vt of the above: pb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Life+Handicap+Being+Stories+of+Mine+Own+People&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1890</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Many+Inventions&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Many Inventions</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1893</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Day+Work&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Day's Work</a></em> (New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, <b>1898</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Just+So+Stories+for+Little+Children&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Just So Stories for Little Children</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1902</b>) [coll: illus/hb/Rudyard Kipling]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Traffics+and+Discoveries&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Traffics and Discoveries</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1904</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Abaft+the+Funnel&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Abaft the Funnel</a></em> (New York: B W Dodge and Company, <b>1909</b>) [coll: hb/uncredited]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Actions+and+Reactions&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Actions and Reactions</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1909</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Diversity+of+Creatures&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Diversity of Creatures</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1917</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Debits+and+Credits&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Debits and Credits</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1926</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Thy+Servant+a+Dog+Told+by+Boots+Edited+by&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">"Thy Servant a Dog": Told by Boots: Edited by Rudyard Kipling</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1930</b>) [coll of linked stories: chap: illus/hb/H L Stampa] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Thy+Servant+a+Dog+and+Other+Dog+Stories&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">"Thy Servant a Dog" and Other Dog Stories</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1933</b>) [coll: exp vt of the above: illus/hb/G L Stampa]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Limits+and+Renewals&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Limits and Renewals</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1932</b>) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> </ul> <p><b>posthumous compilations</b> (selected)</p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Complete+Supernatural+Stories+of+Rudyard&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling</a></em> (London: W H Allen, <b>1987</b>) [coll: edited by Peter <a href="/entry/haining_peter">Haining</a>: hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Mark+of+the+Beast+and+Other+Horror+Tales&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales</a></em> (New York: Dover Publications, <b>2000</b>) [coll: edited by S T <a href="/entry/joshi_s_t">Joshi</a>: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=John+Brunner+Presents+Kipling+Fantasy&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">John Brunner Presents Kipling's Fantasy</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1992</b>) [coll: edited by John <a href="/entry/brunner_john">Brunner</a>: hb/Bryn Barnard]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=John+Brunner+Presents+Kipling+Science+Fiction&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1992</b>) [coll: edited by John <a href="/entry/brunner_john">Brunner</a>: hb/David R Dietrick] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Science+Fiction+Stories+of+Rudyard+Kipling&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling</a></em> (Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel, <b>1994</b>) [coll: vt of the above: edited by John <a href="/entry/brunner_john">Brunner</a>: pb/Kevin Kelly]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Mark+of+the+Beast+and+Other+Fantastical+Tales&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales</a></em> (London: Gollancz, <b>2006</b>) [coll: edited by Stephen Jones: pb/Richard Carr]</li> </ul> <p><b>nonfiction</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Something+of+Myself&field-author=Kipling+Rudyard" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Something of Myself</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1937</b>) [nonfiction: autobiography: hb/nonpictorial]</li> </ul> <p><b>about the author</b></p> <p>Literature on Kipling is extensive; only a small selection is given. Charles Carrington's <em>Rudyard Kipling</em> (<b>1955</b>) has long been the standard (though somewhat superficial) biography, and is therefore listed below. </p> <ul class="x"> <li>Charles Carrington. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rudyard+Kipling&field-author=Charles+Carrington" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rudyard Kipling</a></em> (London: Macmillan and Company, <b>1955</b>) [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li>J M S Tompkins. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Art+of+Rudyard+Kipling&field-author=J+M+S+Tompkins" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Art of Rudyard Kipling</a></em> (London: Methuen and Company, <b>1959</b>) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> <li>Alan Sandison. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Wheel+of+Empire+A+Study+of+the+Imperial+Idea&field-author=Alan+Sandison" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Wheel of Empire: A Study of the Imperial Idea in Some Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Fiction</a></em> (London: Macmillan, <b>1967</b>) [nonfiction: John <a href="/entry/buchan_john">Buchan</a>: H Rider <a href="/entry/haggard_h_rider">Haggard</a>: Rudyard Kipling: hb/India Office Library]</li> <li>John Gross, editor. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rudyard+Kipling+The+Man+His+Work+and+His+World&field-author=John+Gross" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rudyard Kipling: The Man, His Work and His World</a></em> (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, <b>1972</b>) [nonfiction: anth: hb/from Philip Burne-Jones]</li> <li>Kingsley <a href="/entry/amis_kingsley">Amis</a>. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rudyard+Kipling+and+His+World&field-author=Amis+Kingsley" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rudyard Kipling and His World</a></em> (London: Thames and Hudson, <b>1975</b>) [nonfiction: hb/from William Nicholson]</li> <li>Angus <a href="/entry/wilson_angus">Wilson</a>. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Strange+Ride+of+Rudyard+Kipling+His+Life+and&field-author=Wilson+Angus" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works</a></em> (London: Secker and Warburg, <b>1977</b>) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> <li>John Batchelor. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=How+the+Just+So+Stories+Were+Made+The+Brilliance&field-author=John+Batchelor" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">How the Just So Stories Were Made: The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children</a></em> (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, <b>2021</b>) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kipling.org.uk/">The Kipling Society</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1961">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/132">Project Gutenberg</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/"><em>The Encyclopedia of Fantasy</em></a>: <a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/beast_fable">Beast Fable</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?link=kipling_rudyard">Picture Gallery</a></li> </ul> <p><b>previous versions of this entry</b></p> <ul><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kipling_rudyard' target='_blank'>Internet Archive</a></li></ul><br /><br /></article></div> <div class="sideBarsWrapper"> <div class="sideBarsColsWrapper clearfix"> <div class="column sideBar12 clearfix"> <div class="columnForm"><aside id="blogFeed" class="widget"> <div class="content STeditorial clearfix"> <h2>Recently visited entries<span style="background:url(/images/thingSFE2.png) !important"></span></h2><ul style='width: 50%; 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