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One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. Along the way, Karel Capek satirizes science, runaway capitalism, fascism, journalism, militarism, even Hollywood.… (plus d'informations)
chrisharpe: A similar kind of dystopian novel written on the verge of WWII, both are fantasies, reminiscent of H.G. Wells, with a puzzling (to me at least) element of satire on contemporary events. Definitely of their time - black-and-white Sunday afternoon early sci-fi.… (plus d'informations)
HelgeM: Die Marsianer treffen auf der Erde auf Gestalten der griechischen Mythologie. Die Menschen sind anfangs gegen die neue Herrschaft, verhalten sich aber mehr und mehr opportunistisch, schließlich wollen die Invasoren nur Magensaft…
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If you were to look for the little island of Tanah Masa on the map, you would find it right on the equator, a bit to the west of Sumatra; but if on board the ship Kandong Bandoeng you were to ask Captain J. van Toch what is this Tanah Masa before which he has just dropped anchor, he would curse for a while, and then tell you that it is the dirtiest hole in all the Straits, even worse that Tanah Bala and at least as damned as Pini, or Banjak; that the only---I beg your pardon---man who lives there---not counting, of course, those lousy Bataks---is a drunken commercial agent, a cross between a Cuban and a Portuguese, and a bigger thief, heathen, and swine than a pure Cuban and a pure white man put together; and if there is anything damned in this world, then it is the damned life on this damned Tanah Masa, sir.
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Nowadays we simply cannot wait for a few hundred years for something good or bad to happen in the world. Take the migration of peoples which used to drag on over several centuries: today, with our present organisation of transport, it could be accomplished in three years; otherwise there would be no profit in it. The same is true of the liquidation of the Roman Empire, the colonisation of the continents, the extermination of the Red Indians, and so on. All these things could have been accomplished incomparably more speedily if they had been put in the hands of entrepreneurs with a lot of capital behind them.
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One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. Along the way, Karel Capek satirizes science, runaway capitalism, fascism, journalism, militarism, even Hollywood.
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