Karel Čapek

Intro

Karel Čapek (1890-1938) was a Czech writer

Čapek’s most famous work is the playRUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots) (1920) which gave us the word  ‘robot‘.

War with the Newts (Válka s mloky, 1936) is a dystopian satire on Nazism.

References:

• Čapek, Karel, RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots) (1920)
• —— War with the Newts (Válka s mloky, 1936)
• Prucher, Jeff., Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (ed., 2007)