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RUR & War with the Newts

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780575099456

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 13th October 2011

Genre: Fiction & Related Items

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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.

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Two cautionary (and visionary) tales that show us full well that man is at the top of the evolutionary chain through no real merit of his own.
Graeme Flory, GRAEME'S FANTASY BOOK REVIEW Blog