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War with the Newts

War with the Newts ( also called War with the Salamanders )

( Czech - Valka s mloky - 1936 )

novel by Karel Capek

translated by Marie and Robert Weatherall

Published: G. P. Putnam's Sons - hardback - 1939
ISBN: none

Bantam Books - paperback - 1955
ISBN: none

Berkley Medallion - paperback - 1967
ISBN: none

Gregg Press - hardback - 1975
ISBN: 0839823010 / 9780839823018

Berkley Medallion - paperback - 1976
ISBN: 0425031683 / 9780425031681

Northwestern University Press - paperback - 1985
ISBN: 0810106639 / 9780810106635

Unicorn / Unwin Paperbacks - paperback - 1985 ( UK - translated by Ewald Osers )
ISBN: 0048233080 / 9780048233080

Catbird Press - trade paperback - 1990 ( US - translated by Ewald Osers )
ISBN: 0945774109 / 9780945774105

Picador - trade paperback - 1991 ( translated by Ewald Osers )
ISBN: 0330316958 / 9780330316958

Echo Library - trade paperback - 2010 ( POD )
ISBN: 1406867128 / 9781406867121

Melville House - Kindle - 2012 ( translated by David Wyllie )
ASIN: B004P8JPUO

Theophania Publishing - Kindle - 2012 ( ( translated by David Wyllie )
ASIN: B0072PEWNC

omnibus edition ( RUR - War with the Newts )
Gollancz - trade paperback - 2011
ISBN: 0575099453 / 9780575099456

synopsis
This science fiction novel talks of human like salamanders taking over the world. A Czech sea captain finds intelligent salamanders / newts on a South Pacific island. He trains them and teaches them how to talk. He brings some over to Europe and along with a Czech businessman they start up a revolution in human history. The newts are used as cheap labor force mainly for water constructions, etc. They need little food, their body has a great healing capacity and they are highly intelligent. Slowly things start to get out of hand, the newts begin to threaten the humans and eliminate most of the continents in order to have shallow sea water they prefer best for their habitat.

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