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Karel Capek
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Anyone here read his stuff? He's a Czech writer who worked hard to deal with deep themes and still do it in a vernacular which was approachable by the masses.
A lot of his works emphasize the onslught of technology and its impact on humanity. "War With The Newts" describes a species battle between humanity and newts, unleashed by the pearl industry.
Great stuff - - horrifying, too.
Posted at 8:07PM, 17 March 2007 PDT
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Hi Frank,
I just joined this group, and I read War With The Newts 20 years ago. As I remember it, not only the human but also the newt population suffers a lot in that development. Masses forced into uniforms are degraded to a tool, amphibian or human.
Posted 9 months ago.
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