Author : Kipling R.
What is it about : The book included 9 of Kipling's most weird and wonderful science fictions. These stories included cynical journalists aboard a sailboat and witnessed first hand the struggling and "dance macabre" of sort, of two gigantic, smelly and vicious sea creatures in the faraway oceans; these journalists were unsure regarding the publication of this rather unusual and scary account as the general reading public would surely say "sea monsters, yeh, yeh, sure !"; other memorable stories included talking engines, surgeons testing new drugs based on different timing (tides) as well as other present day phenomena we took for granted like wireless communications.
Some thoughts after having read the book : Amazing that the famous author was so far sighted, back from over 100 years ago. Even though he did not predict the exact technologies that would enable and enrich our 2018 daily lives, his vivid imaginations and human touch made up the rest. Never a straight forward read, I had at times struggled a lot to get to grips to the dialogues, whether these conversations were between monks, talking machines with a bit of an attitude or pilots in command of strange flying objects.
Would I recommend this book to you : I would recommend this book insofar as if the readers would want to make an effort to get to know this famous author's range, skills, choice of words, scene-setting and dialogue-making. But be warned, a tough book to get through as the wordings from a century ago could be intimidating. A high level read to grasp his concepts would suffice.
