Wireless

Kipling, Rudyard. "Wireless." Traffics and Discoveries. 1904. Coll. The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling.

Near-in S.F. A tale of the supernatural is naturalized by analogy. Even as a radio Morse code device (the "wireless" of the title) reacts to invisible waves of electomagnetic energy, so the tubercular Mr. Shaynor receives from somewhere the words to John Keats's "The Eve of St. Agnes" (1819/1820).

Not to be confused with Charles Stross's 2009 short story collection called Wireless.

RDE, initial, 09/07/95; 19Feb21