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Absolute At Large eBook

by Karel Capek
language: english
Publisher: Distributed By Ingram Spark, November of 2018 ‧
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This 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. The absolute is a spiritual essence that according to some religious philosophies allegedly permeates all matter. It is associated with human religious experience, as unsuspecting humanity is to find out all too soon in the story. The widespread adoption of the reactors causes an enormous outpouring of pure absolute into the world. This leads to an outburst of religious and nationalist fervor, causing the greatest, most global war in history. R. D. Mullen called the novel "one of the genuine masterpieces of SF," but noted that due to its originality "it has surely had no great influence on popular SF." 

Absolute At Large

by Karel Capek

Property Description
ISBN: 9781773233130
Publisher: Distributed By Ingram Spark
Release Date: November of 2018
Language: English
Pages: 224
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
EAN: 9781773233130
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karel Capek

Karel Čapek (Malé Svatonovice, January 9, 1890 – Prague, December 25, 1938). Czech novelist, playwright, and director. Known for his play performed in 1921, R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), the most famous of which, is where he invented the word ROBOT. He also wrote the satire "Power and Glory" and the drama "The World We Live In"He graduated from the University of Prague. He was also an editor for a Prague newspaper and a political essayist.
Karel Čapek is considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the 20th century. He was Czechoslovakia's greatest novelist and a representative of its democratic spirit. His plays premiered on Broadway soon after their Prague debut, and his books have been translated into numerous languages. His texts are marked by clear and engaging writing, which makes him exceptional.
He died in the December preceding the start of World War II. His death resulted from a period of pneumonia stemming from a hunger strike and his refusal to live in his country after the Allies rejected aid to Czechoslovakia in order to protect it from Hitler. The Gestapo classified him as Public Enemy No. 2. After the war, Capek's work was reluctantly accepted by the Czech communist regime, since during his lifetime Capek had always refused to believe in the communist utopia as an alternative to the Nazi threat.

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