Karel ¿apek's brilliant comic and satirical novel of 1936 deals with the discovery of a sentient race of newts or salamanders, and their subsequent transition from fairground sideshow to forced labour to ferocious enemies of the human race. Along the way he pokes fun at a whole range of targets, fro...

One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge m...

Nauchno-fantasticheskij roman «Vojna s salamandrami» rasskazyvaet o stolknovenii mira lyudej s mirom salamandr. Ponachalu simpatichnye i mirnye zemnovodnye ocharovyvayut lyudej, kotorye delyatsya s nimi svoimi znaniyami i navykami. Salamandr ispol'zuyut dlya razvitiya promyshlennosti, rasshireniya t...