Eric S. Raymond is spurred to further reading on Kipling by a comment on his essay that I reprinted in Prometheus. I have to admit that it’s been a long time since I read Kipling, and then it mostly was his Indian tales. I’ve pulled down my Kipling sf collection and hope to read the stories again, given the comments by both Raymond and William Stoddard, who caused Raymond to re-think some of the ideas in his original essay.