As Easy As A. B. C.

First published	April 1917
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette
Series	Aerial Board of Control #2

Notes

Published March to April 1912 as "As Easy as A.B.C.": A Tale of 2150 A.D. in The London Magazine v28, pp. 3-11, 163-71, with illustrations by F. Gardner, so signed and credited (Frederick Gardner (I) in the database). Sources: ForgottenFutures.com and The Fiction Mags Index, which lists Contents with page numbers for vol 28, #17-18 New Series. (Volume 28 is not available at HathiTrust Digital Library as of 2017-10-30.)
Sequel to "With the Night Mail" (1905), which was lightly revised and augmented in 1909 as "With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared)". There "A.B.C." or "ABC" is an initialism for the Aerial Board of Control.
SFE3 lists the 2012 collection as an expansion of the 1909 chapbook, with full title: With the Night Mail and "As Easy As ABC": Two Yarns about the Aerial Board of Control and with an afterword by Bruce Sterling.

External Links

forgottenfutures.com

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Status
2006	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2007	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2008	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2009	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2010	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2011	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2012	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2013	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2014	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2015	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2016	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2017	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2018	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2019	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2020	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist
2021	Prometheus Award	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award	Nominee/Finalist

Publications (35)

Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
April 1917	A Diversity of Creatures	Macmillan and Co.	Collection	1
April 1917	A Diversity of Creatures	Doubleday, Page & Company	Collection	3
February 1950	The Science Fiction Galaxy	Permabooks	Anthology	39
August 1963	17 X Infinity	Dell	Anthology	172
1964	17 X Infinity	Mayflower-Dell	Anthology	172
September 1964	Science Fantasy, September-October 1964	Roberts & Vinter Ltd.	MAGAZINE	71
1965	17 X Infinity	Mayflower-Dell	Anthology	172
1966	SF Reprise 3	Compact Books	Anthology
April 1969	17 X Infinity	Dell	Anthology	172
April 1969	17 X Infinity	Dell	Anthology	172
1973	Speculations	Glencoe Press	Anthology
April 1983	The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces	Arbor House	Anthology	58
February 1984	The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces	Priam Books / Arbor House	Anthology	58
1985	Great Tales of Science Fiction	Galahad Books	Anthology	58
1987	A Diversity of Creatures	Penguin Books	Collection
June 1988	Great Tales of Science Fiction	Galahad Books	Anthology	58
May 1989	A Separate Star: A Science Fiction Tribute to Rudyard Kipling	Baen Books	Anthology	249
October 1992	John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction	Tor	Collection	87
March 1994	Great Tales of Science Fiction	Galahad Books	Anthology	58
May 1994	The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling	Citadel Twilight	Collection	87
November 1997	The Science Fiction Century	Tor	Anthology	285
November 1997	The Science Fiction Century	Tor / BOMC	Anthology	285
February 1998	The British Way	Borealis / White Wolf Publishing	Anthology	122
May 1998	The Science Fiction Century	Quality Paperback Book Club	Anthology	285
June 1998	Kipling's Science Fiction	G. K. Hall & Co.	Collection	162
April 2003	The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction: Volume One	Robinson	Anthology	100
August 2004	A Diversity of Creatures	Project Gutenberg	Collection	\|1
March 2006	The Science Fiction Century, Volume One	Orb	Anthology	279
September 2007	A Diversity of Creatures	Wildside Press	Collection
July 2008	The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction Stories	Phoenix Pick	Anthology	141
October 2008	The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction Stories	Phoenix Pick	Anthology	\|141
May 2012	With the Night Mail and As Easy As A.B.C.	HiLoBooks	Collection	\|3
September 2016	Dystopia Utopia Short Stories	Flame Tree Publishing	Anthology	165
September 2016	Dystopia Utopia Short Stories	Flame Tree Publishing	Anthology
October 2016	The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction: Second Edition	Phoenix Pick	Anthology