7186 7126667a-2e39-405f-8cd2-21979814a3f6 RUR and War with the Newts Karel Čapek calibre (0.8.28) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 2011-12-05T08:35:21+00:00 <div><h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Book Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> Two dystopian satires from one of the most distinguished writers of 20th-century European science fiction. R.U.R. is the work that first introduced the word 'robot' into popular usage. <div class="emptyClear"> </div> </div> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> Written against the background of the rise of Nazism, War With the Newts concerns the discovery in the South Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, which is enslaved and exploited by mankind. In time they rebel, laying siege to the strongholds of their former masters in a global war for supremacy. R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots, seen by many as a modern interpretation of the 'golem' myth, is regarded as the most important play in the history of SF. It introduced the word 'robot' and gave the genre one of its most enduring tropes.      </div></div> eng SciFi-Masterwork