A Diversity of Creatures (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Rudyard Kipling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331482976 ISBN 13: 9781331482970

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

In a future where privacy rules the planet, a daring mission tests the line between safety and freedom.

A diverse, thought‑provoking tale set in a high‑tech world where governments and fleets move at the speed of marble‑quiet data. The story threads together a skeptical view of control, the cost of living with constant surveillance, and the human urge to stay connected without surrendering individuality. Readers meet a wary observer who documents the drama of a planet that prizes privacy even as it pushes the boundaries of technology and power.

• Explore a futuristic bureaucracy and its clever, sometimes brittle, logic.
• Watch how brave decisions ripple through a world that guards information tightly.
• See how different cultures confront common questions about privacy and society.
• Follow a narrator who balances curiosity with caution in a world of rapid change.

Ideal for readers who enjoy thoughtful, accessible science fiction that blends satire with vivid worldbuilding and human stakes.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism".[Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331482976
• ISBN 13: 9781331482970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 548