The Army of a Dream

<br> 'Later tales include [... 2nd in a list of 6] "The Army of a Dream" (15-18 June 1904 <i>Morning Post</i>; in <i>Traffics and Discoveries</i>, coll 1904), a <u>Utopian</u> vision of <u>Near-Future</u> militarized England in which – prefiguring the society of Robert A <u>Heinlein</u>'s <i>Starship Troopers</i> (October-November 1959 <u>F&SF</u> as "Starship Soldier"; 1959) – voting rights and other social privileges must be earned by volunteer service ...' (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute and David Langford <br><br> In this fable, "Mr. Kipling rides his hobby of a citizen soldiery embracing potentially the entire male population of the British Islands." --<i>The Critic</i>, Nov 1904, p. 172, "The Same Old Kipling" by J.B.G.

First published June 1904 in London daily The Morning Post. The 1904 collection Traffics and Discoveries contains this story in two chapters, so to speak, as Part I and Part II (UK and US 1st eds. viewed online) Presumably it was originally published thus. SFE3 reports "15-18 June 1904", which implies a serial in two to four issues of the newspaper.