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	Karel Capek - Presentation on Karel Capek
		At the beginning of the World War One, he was examined by the military doctors.
		The famous novel "War with the Newts" (Válka s mloky) is published in 1936.
		Newts become dangerous and peop le have to start fighting them.
	capek.misto.cz /english/presentat.html (2301 words)

	War with the Newts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After some time, however, the newts organize, stop obeying the humans, and set about to blow up the Earth's continents in order to create the shallow littoral waters that are their ideal habitat.
		Ironically, the newts themselves cannot manufacture the necessary explosives and metal tools (indeed, under water they probably cannot manufacture anything), but they receive these from the human governments; each government considers its own newts a military defence force, and feels it necessary to support them in order to keep pace with others.
		One particular gem is the mentioned research of a German scientist who has determined that the German newts are actually a superior Nordic race, and that as such they have a right to expand their living space at the expense of the inferior breeds of newts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_with_the_Newts (409 words)

	Amazon.ca: War with the Newts: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		War With the Newts, one of the great dystopian satires of the century, is about the discovery by a Dutch sea-captain of a race of giant, intelligent, talking, and walking newts.
		War With the Newts is a Swiftian social satire from the Czech science fiction writer Karl Capek.
		Newts are intelligent, amphibious salamanders that Capek, in what he probably doesn't realize is a digression into mysticism, calls Nature's other attempt to achieve the pinnacle of evolution.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0810114682 (1195 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Garter snakes, newts in genetic war
		A newt is a member of the salamander order, and rough-skinned newts are common in West Coast streams.
		Shana L. Geffeney, a graduate student at the Logan university, is the lead author of the study published in the most recent edition of the journal "Nature." Her co-authors are Esther Fujimoto, Edmund D. Brodie Jr.
		In a 2002 study in the journal Science, Geffeney, the Brodies (father and son professors) and Ruben showed that the newts and snakes were locked in the arms race.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600125315,00.html (691 words)

	Elizabeth Maslen- Proper Words in Proper Places: The Challenge of Capek's War with the Newts
		War with the Newts was originally published in Prague in 1936 and was written in Czech.
		Newts are used as butts by the worst representatives of science, technology, popular entertainment, education, insensitive charity, and so on.
		The fact that War with the Newts was published in 1936 and Orwell's moment of truth came in the same year is, on the face of it, pure coincidence.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/review_essays/maslen41.htm (4779 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: War with the Newts (European Classics): Books: Karel Capek
		Before long the newts revolt, led by the Great Salamander (an apparent parody of Hitler), and announce that they will start destroying the earth, continent by continent in order to provide more coastline for the growing newt population.
		War With the Newts is a fascinating book on many levels.
		War With the Newts may be viewed as much as a parable of contemporary events as a foretelling of a dark future.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Newts-European-Classics-Karel-Capek/dp/0810114682 (1107 words)

	War with the Newts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The beginning of Karel Capek's "War with the Newts" uses the word "devil" frequently, often for the Newts.
		The story reveals, however, that the Newts were not devils initially, but were turned into devils by human wickedness, which may be a reminder from Capek that people don't need to look outside their community for evil, but may cause evil themselves.
		In one of the greatest demonstrations of humans using Newts, the Germans had the Newts explode some sand dunes, causing "sunsets over the whole of Europe [to be] unusually beautiful, blood red, and fiery as they had never been before." The Newts were transformed just like the sunsets, from peaceful and mundane to bloody murderers.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~pdorman/works/Newts.html (184 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - War with the Newts - Karel Capek - Paperback
		War with the Newts will never fall into oblivion....Capek is perhaps the first European writer whose novels anticipated the gruesome vision of a totalitarian world.
		War with the Newts was a great exotic story, with such detail and plot that no reader can put the book down.
		War With the Newts was the most brilliant, well thoughtout, and astonishing book I have ever read.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /BookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=3L7bNZgCTd&isbn=0945774109&TXT=Y&itm=2 (1047 words)

	HIDDEN HISTORY: Columbus 500 - Reviews
		The newts produce such a surplus of material goods that the markets become super-saturated, the capitalist world order is threatened and human trade unionists begin to wage campaigns to have their manufacturing activities strictly limited.
		Territorial conferences are held, terms are dictated to the newts which they find unsatisfactory and ultimately, armed with sophisticated weapons of human design but their own making, the newts begin to bombard the land masses with the intention of enlarging their own habitat.
		When the newts become conscious of their own oppression and begin to redress the balance, they are accused of being ‘terrorists’ and the League of Nations unites against them.
	www.newint.org /issue226/reviews.htm (1924 words)

	Bibliography: War With the Newts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		War With the Newts (1955, Bantam, #A1292, $0.35, 236pp, pb)
		War with the Newts (1985, Allen & Unwin/Unicorn, 0048233080, L2.95, 241pp, pb)
		War with the Newts (1991, Picador, 0330316958, L6.99, 215pp, tp)
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/title.cgi?894 (53 words)

	::The Life Style Blog::: peace & war (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some of the world's poorest people are suffering as a result of the war on terror, a leading UK charity has said.
		War is no longer the way to solve humanity's differences.
		In collaboration with NPR News, NOW with Bill Moyers features documentary reporting, in-depth one-on-one interviews and articulate commentary offering viewers relevant and diverse perspectives on the events, issues and ideas that are shaping their world.
	thoughtoffering.blogs.com /lifestyle/peace_war (540 words)

	Capek's Modern Apocalypse
		As Capek develops his story of the newts and their history, he also refines his answer, and it is a depressing one.
		Yes, the masses resemble the newts; and the newts have become assimilated by the masses.
		Even the newts are marked by their encounter with people and their "culture." This is why, with no precautions, they begin to destroy dry land as soon as they find it to be in their interests to do so.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Jesse_Airaudi/klima1.htm (5845 words)

	Amazon.com: War with the Newts: Books: Karel Capek,Ewald Osers
		War With the Newts, one of the great dystopian satires of the century, is about the discovery by a Dutch sea-captain of a race of giant, intelligent, talking, and walking newts.
		The dangers of runaway technology, militarism, and greed are further explored in Capek's hilarious satire, War with the Newts.
		The newts are taught to read, to build massive underwater projects, and to protect the shores of the countries that bought them.
	www.amazon.com /War-Newts-Karel-Capek/dp/0945774109 (758 words)

	My Newtbook (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NEWT NOTICE: Visit the site Stanley Green Pond Watch Group to help preserve a breeding ground of the rare Great crested newt.
		Before What's-His-Name became the You-Know-What, anyone interested in newts knew and loved Karel Capek's book War with the Newts (which may have lapsed into the public domain; John Heidemann has an excerpt from it too).
		Capek's book was the direct inspiration for my newt cartoons, which have been published in various little magazines in both the States and England.
	www.lookoutnow.com /newts.htm (113 words)

	Review Articles: March 1987
		Crowded with memories of the Great War, the high rising edifices of scientism and modernism, and the bullying shapes of the dictators growing in power across Europe, the '30s granted writers little of the elbow room and breathing space required for building the New Jerusalem.
		In fact, the texts that have defined the condition of Utopia between the two world wars tend to be the negative and satiric fables of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here (1935), Capek's R.U.R. (1920) and War With the Newts (1936), and C. Lewis's reactionary Out of the Silent Planet (1938).
		Anthony Julian's father returns home to the North of England from the Great War, estranged from his wife and son, his temperamental romanticism warped into obsession, and his amateur's love of classical literature and culture perverted by a transference of hatred for the modern "Hun" to the 5th-century Vandals who sacked Rome.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/reviews_pages/r41.htm (2092 words)

	Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center::Nonprofit Themes in Fiction
		After working as an art assessor and spying for the British from a Bavarian castle during World War II, he spends the rest of his life amassing a tremendous collection of art, books, and manuscripts, which he leaves to his college and other Canadian institutes upon his death.
		Set as a science fiction about a new breed of newts that are exploited to work for human.
		Within the story there is a charity for the protection of newts and an interesting angle on academics.
	inrc.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu /education/books/fiction.asp (587 words)

	A Nod to Nothing: War With the Newts
		Karel Capek's War With the Newts was written in 1936 (wiki, amazon) and is about exactly what the title suggests, humankind's war with a race of newts.
		Mankind discovers a race of newts trapped in a bay and kept at a population minimum by hungry sharks and the Newts' lack of access to sharp tools.
		Hi, so I'm re-reading War With the Newts, and it has stcuk me that the internet should be able to answer certain random questions that I had during my first reading.
	nodtonothing.blogspot.com /2007/02/war-with-newts.html (935 words)

	Flak Magazine: World Trade Organization, 12-02-99
		Though the use of newts dramatically improves the world economy, the animals soon develop their own civilization, and in the end rise up against their human oppressors.
		For Capek, the real tragedy of mankind was not war, famine, ideologies or even really big amphibians, but rather its blind acceptance of the course of history, its failure to realize that ideas, economies and governments in the end depend on the people that support them.
		They are met with tear gas and rubber bullets, but also calm assurances that the WTO and its brand of global trade are protecting the world from war, famine and economic depression, arguments which in their pat fl-and-whiteness are eerily reminescent of the newt-using governments in Capek's novel.
	www.flakmag.com /opinion/wto.html (740 words)

	The War With the Newts, by Karl Capek
		The War With the Newts, by Karl Capek
		When he went through the section with the newts there was a great splashing in one of the tanks, and somebody remarked in a croaking voice, ``Good evening, sir.''
		Professor Petrov expressed his doubts about the Elberfeld horses which, it was said, could not only count, but also raise a number to a higher power and find the square root of a number; ``for not even a normal, intelligent man can extract the square root of a number, can he?'' said the great scientist.
	www.isi.edu /people/johnh/ABOUT/FEATURES/newts.html (351 words)

	"R.U.R." at UAB (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a second world war began to seem more and more inevitable, Čapek wrote increasingly of the dangers and waste of war and totalitarianism.
		His 1936 novel The War with the Newts is often cited by lovers of satire as their favorite Čapek work -- sometimes as their favorite book in the world!
		Curiously, The War with the Newts also anticipates -- to an almost eerie degree -- aspects of the five films in the original Planet of the Apes series.
	theatre.hum.uab.edu /RUR/about-capek.htm (356 words)

	mindspill
		War with the Newts - Karel Capcek (translated by M & R Weatherall)
		War with the Newts starts with captain van Toch finding some strange ugly creatures in the Pacific Ocean who the locals used to think were devils.
		This venture was successful and the newts started being used by different countries to help in marine related jobs like building dams and building other submarine structures leading to the building of full blown underwater cities.
	www.mindspill.org /index/channel/books (4793 words)

	Fantasy and Science Fiction - Book Reviews
		These in turn are flanked by a wonderful new translation of War with the Newts and a marvelous anthology titled Toward the Radical Center that includes a new translation of R.U.R. --seven volumes in all.
		War with the Newts is Capek's sidelong glance at the worst foibles of mankind and of his age.
		During World War II served in the army and in 1945, as war artist, was among the first to enter the concentration camp at Belsen.
	www.sfsite.com /fsf/2003/js0301.htm (2556 words)

	Book Information: War with the Newts, the :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book.
		Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island.
		Capek sardonically details all the reactions of the civilized world - from horror to skepticism, from intellectual fascination to mercantile opportunism - and the ultimate destruction from which it (and the newts) might not escape.
	www.iblist.com /book8705.htm (127 words)

	Old Homepage Quotes
		So they decided to make war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece in order not to have to do so in Italy; and they could have avoided both one and the other for a time, but they did not want to.
		Nor did that saying ever please them which is every day in the mouths of the wise men of our times -- to enjoy the benefit of time -- but rather, they enjoyed the benefit of their virtue and prudence.
		It is clear in the case of war Newt flesh could form a welcome and cheap substitute for beef.
	www.ais.org /~wambaugh/quotes.html (606 words)

	(DV) Jones: "Let's Put on a Show!"
		The two ways to withdraw one's financial support from the war machine are to stop paying war taxes and to boycott the corporate profiteers that constitute the industrial side of the military-industrial complex.
		Both of these strategies ensure that we are not supporting war with money at the same time as we oppose war with words.
		The majority of people in the world opposed the war in Iraq and continue to resent the current foreign and environmental policies of the United States.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Mar04/Jones0314.htm (1764 words)

	Re: orion-list guilty corpses
		The War Between the Sons of Light (White Hats) and the Sons of Dark (Black Hats) is set in the _future_; hence, fiction on its face.
		In terms and milieu appropriate to its intended audience, "The War Scroll" story is a good example of future fantasy; Science Fiction and Fantasy 2nd BCE style.
		Further, while we know that fabulous stories abounded within the Greco-Roman world, the "War Scroll" gives us one piece of priceless information about pop lit at the time: future fiction and fantasy was a known and acknowledged genre.
	orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /orion/archives/2000b/msg00202.html (547 words)

	War With the Newts by Karel Capek (ISBN: 0945774109) at Biblio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An adaptable type of newt is discovered in the East Indies and is put to work by humans; as they become more and more intelligent, they begin to resent their exploitation.
		The war in question begins when the newts arm themselves with explosives.
		This novel, one of the great political sci-fi classics of modern times, was published in 1936 when the Nazis were a growing threat, and many of Capek's comments on greed, exploitation, and armaments had a specific resonance in the Europe of the time.
	www.biblio.com /isbnsearch.php?isbn=0945774109 (252 words)

	UnRequired Reading - Marriott Picks - 20th Century European Novels (Site not responding. Last check: )
		War With the Newts / Karel Capek / PG5038.C3 V313 1990 Stacks, level two.
		After a period of ruthless exploitation by humans the newts, um, get bent and throw down with the humans.
		Desperate for love and companionship, she keeps him there after the war's end by withholding the news that the war is over from him.
	www.lib.utah.edu /unreq/fb/3mp_europe.html (717 words)

	Crooked Timber » Chris Mooney seminar
		The war and the quarrels by Tim Lambert
		Chris Mooney’s book, The Republican War on Science is, therefore, a timely contribution to the debate, and we are happy to host a seminar to discuss it, and thank Chris for agreeing to take part.
		The central rhetorical element of the War on Science is the abandonment of science, as the term in normally understood, in favour of what is called ‘sound science’, a term that first came to prominence with The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, a body primarily funded by the Philip Morris tobacco company.
	crookedtimber.org /category/chris-mooney-seminar (2526 words)

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