Sean to Ask [email protected] • 11 months agoBookworms of Lemmy, what are you currently reading?message-square139arrow-up1159arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1157arrow-down1message-squareBookworms of Lemmy, what are you currently reading?Sean to Ask [email protected] • 11 months agomessage-square139file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•11 months agoJust finished a book from the 1930s by a Czech author Karel Čapek called War with the Newts. It’s sci-fi based on earth in 1930s but what I found the most interesting is seeing an author from 1930s write and think on paper (casual racism and sexism, for example), the echoes of the looming WWII the retro futurism - I love seeing what people from the past imagined would happen with technology. They are often right, often cutely wrong.
minus-squareVuipeslinkfedilink4•11 months agoTIL: His brother invented the word “robot”, which Karel Čapek used in the book R.U.R. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek#Etymology_of_robot
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•11 months agoJohn Brunner’s ‘Stand On Zanzibar’ won the Hugo in 969 for its depiction of the early 21st Century. Amazing how much he got right.
Just finished a book from the 1930s by a Czech author Karel Čapek called War with the Newts.
It’s sci-fi based on earth in 1930s but what I found the most interesting is
seeing an author from 1930s write and think on paper (casual racism and sexism, for example),
the echoes of the looming WWII
the retro futurism - I love seeing what people from the past imagined would happen with technology. They are often right, often cutely wrong.
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TIL: His brother invented the word “robot”, which Karel Čapek used in the book R.U.R.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek#Etymology_of_robot
John Brunner’s ‘Stand On Zanzibar’ won the Hugo in 969 for its depiction of the early 21st Century. Amazing how much he got right.