Best known for his play R.U.R. -- (Rossum's Universal Robots). The mechanical robot (a term coined by Čapek from the Czech word "robota" meaning drudgery) opened up a whole new world of Science Fiction, as well as adding a word to the English Language.
Karel Čapek is widely considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. A novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist, he was a strong dissident voice during the period of fascist buildup in Europe between the World Wars. He wrote a number of satires, as well as the utopian fantasy novel War with the Newts. He died in 1938.
Karel Čapek is widely considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. A novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist, he was a strong dissident voice during the period of fascist buildup in Europe between the World Wars. He wrote a number of satires, as well as the utopian fantasy novel War with the Newts. He died in 1938.
Novels
Krakatit (1925)
aka An Atomic Phantasy
The Makropoulos Secret (1925)
The Absolute at Large (1927)
The Gardener's Year (1931)
War with the Newts (1936)
Power and Glory (1938)
The First Rescue Party (1940)
I Had a Dog and a Cat (1940)
The Cheat (1941)
How They Do It (1945)
aka An Atomic Phantasy
The Makropoulos Secret (1925)
The Absolute at Large (1927)
The Gardener's Year (1931)
War with the Newts (1936)
Power and Glory (1938)
The First Rescue Party (1940)
I Had a Dog and a Cat (1940)
The Cheat (1941)
How They Do It (1945)
Collections
Money (1929)
Fairy Tales (1932)
Tales from Two Pockets (1932)
Dashenka (1933)
Three Novels (1948)
Apocryphal Stories (1949)
R. U. R. and The Insect Play (1961)
Nine Fairy Tales and One More Thrown in for Good Measure (1974)
Toward the Radical Center (1990)
Cross Roads (2002)
Fairy Tales (1932)
Tales from Two Pockets (1932)
Dashenka (1933)
Three Novels (1948)
Apocryphal Stories (1949)
R. U. R. and The Insect Play (1961)
Nine Fairy Tales and One More Thrown in for Good Measure (1974)
Toward the Radical Center (1990)
Cross Roads (2002)
Plays show
Non fiction show
Anthologies containing stories by Karel Čapek
The Road to Science Fiction 6 (1998)
Around the World
(Road to Science Fiction, book 6)
edited by
James Gunn
More anthologies
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