War With The Newts
by Karel Capek
Cover artist unknown
Publisher: Bantam
Pub year: 1955
Cover price: 35¢
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by Karel Capek
Cover artist unknown
Publisher: Bantam
Pub year: 1955
Cover price: 35¢
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Here is a great novelist's electrifying story of what might happen to our world tomorrow. With breathtakingly bold vision, Karel Capek gives us a prophetic classic as powerful as 1984, as startling and vivid as Brave New World.
A world-famous all-time science-fiction classic
The incredible story of mankind's greatest discovery — NEWTS.
Newts, it seemed, were harmless, useful and simple to train. They were very eager to please. They learned easily; they bred quickly; they prospered under practically any conditions.
Utopia had arrived — for humans.
But then the newts began to understand their own strength — and mankind's weakness!
Here is a prophetic novel of a world so greedy that it gladly nourished the seeds of its own destruction....
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Aldous Huxley, with BRAVE NEW WORLD, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Jules Verne — these are epoch-making originators of science-fiction.
Karel Capek is another such originator, one of the true science-fiction greats. In his play, R.U.R., he invented the Robot, a pivotal concept of modern science-fiction.
WAR WITH THE NEWTS is Capek's great novel — a work of science-fiction with astounding implications for the whole world today!