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Karel Čapek


Czechoslovakia (1890 - 1938)

Best known for his play R.U.R. -- (Rossum's Universal Robots). The mechanical robot (a term coined by Čapek from the Czech word "robota" meaning drudgery) opened up a whole new world of Science Fiction, as well as adding a word to the English Language.

Karel Čapek is widely considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. A novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist, he was a strong dissident voice during the period of fascist buildup in Europe between the World Wars. He wrote a number of satires, as well as the utopian fantasy novel War with the Newts. He died in 1938.
 

 
Series
Noetic Trilogy
   1. Hordubal (1934)
   2. Meteor (1935)
   3. An Ordinary Life (1936)
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Novels
   Krakatit (1925)
     aka An Atomic Phantasy
   The Makropoulos Secret (1925)
   The Absolute at Large (1927)
   The Gardener's Year (1931)
   War with the Newts (1936)
   Power and Glory (1938)
   The First Rescue Party (1940)
   I Had a Dog and a Cat (1940)
   The Cheat (1941)
   How They Do It (1945)
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Books containing stories by Karel Čapek
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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The Road to Science Fiction 6 (1998)
Around the World
(Road to Science Fiction, book 6)
edited by
James Gunn

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