Amazon.com Review
Best known as the inventor of the modern word "robot," Karel Čapek was a Czech writer who dabbled in detective stories and fairy tales before making his name as a playwright and the author of this singular science-fiction satire. In this thinly entertaining and thinly veiled rumination on fascism and colonialism, an enslaved a race of fast-evolving newts grows a collective consciousness that results in their forming a "Salamander Syndicate" that declares war on humanity. --Jason Kirk