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Tov?rna Na Absolutno

Tov?rna Na Absolutno

by Karel Capek
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/2014

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Tov rna na absolutno is a science fiction novel written by Czech author Karel Capek in 1922. The first sentence opens the story on New Year's Day 1943, and describes the fundamental transformations in society as the result of a new mystical source of virtually free energy. The story centers on the invention of a reactor that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy. Unfortunately, it produces something else as a by-product, the absolute.
ISBN:
9781784351021
9781784351021
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-07-2014
Language:
Czech
Publisher:
Jiahu Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
128
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x8mm
Weight:
0.17kg
Karel Capek

Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist.

He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.

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