Imagine an alternate reality where the man who gave the world THE JUNGLE BOOKand Gunga Din and The Phantom Rickshaw was a science fiction writer generations be... » 

Imagine an alternate reality where the man who gave the world THE JUNGLE BOOKand Gunga Din and The Phantom Rickshaw was a science fiction writer generations before Hugo Gernsbeck and AMAZING before the pulp SF thatdominated the thirties before intellectually prescient ASTOUNDING in theforties and sophisticated literary SF magazines like GALAXY and THE MAGAZINE OFFANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION fifties. Think of it a world where Rudyard Kiplingwas a science fiction writer long before SF as we understand it was invented.Well you could tell this is where I was going couldnt you? actually hewas. And the book you re holding in your hands ACTIONS AND REACTIONS is awonderful example of it. It feels a lot like the sort of sophisticated SF literary without being precious we all remember from the Golden Age ofGALAXY and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Imagine that. We livein an alternate universe. «