In the category of
Science Fiction, Team
Bartleby and the Scriveners are pleased to select Karel Capek's 1936 landmark work
War With the Newts.
Capek is perhaps most famous for having coined the term "Robot"--but
War With the Newts, like every good work of sf, is heavily embroiled in the politics of its time, offering a trenchant critique of fascism, socialism, international European politics and war--and in that sense is almost prophetic in forecasting how the unstable environment of Europe would explode into global conflict just three years later. Best described as a dark political satire,
War With the Newts tells the story of the discovery of a race of intelligent amphibians who are at first exploited and enslaved and who then rebel, starting the book's eponymous war which degenerates into a globally destructive conflagration. Beyond all of this--it's a great book, and one that not too many people have read. Check it out--you'll thank me later.