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War With the Newts Book

An unjustly forgotten masterpiece of anti-utopian fantasy that is possibly the equal of Orwell's Animal Farm. Capek writes of an avaricious Dutch seaman who discovers a race of bipedal and intelligent newts in Sumatra that is initially lauded as the equal of the human race, but that is subsequently conscripted into the service of man and then . . . By turns hilarious and grim, but consistently and scathingly insightful into the nature of human nature, and a book that you simply must read. Very Highest Recommendation. (Editor's Note: When Karel Capek is mentioned by English-speaking critics, it is usually in a parenthetical comment that it was he who introduced the term "Robot" into contemporary literature, in a brilliant play about robot rebellion, Rossum's Universal Robots,read more...
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