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Original Title:	Továrna na absolutno
ISBN:	0803264593 (ISBN13: 9780803264595)
Edition Language:	English

The Absolute at Large

Karel Čapek

Paperback | Pages: 248 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 1618 Users | 148 Reviews

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Title	:	The Absolute at Large
Author	:	Karel Čapek
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Frontiers of Imagination
Pages	:	Pages: 248 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2006 by Bison Books (first published 1920)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. European Literature. Czech Literature. Classics

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In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, the Karburator’s superefficient energy production also yields a powerful by-product. The machine works by completely annihilating matter and in so doing releases the Absolute, the spiritual essence held within all matter, into the world. Infected by the heady, pure Absolute, the world’s population becomes consumed with religious and national fervor, the effects of which ultimately cause a devastating global war. Set in the mid-twentieth century, The Absolute at Large questions the ethics and rampant spread of power, mass production, and atomic weapons that Karel Capek saw in the technological and political revolutions occurring around him. Stephen Baxter provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

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Intriguing, funny, and thought-provoking. Communist administrators try to keep God bottled up.

Back when I read this book for the first time in 2010, I didn't even like Čapek. I also hated everything even slightly religious (and obviously, I was too thick to understand Čapek's humor), but it was still sometimes funny and the last chapter kind of stayed with me for all those years. Everyone wants the best for the mankind, but not for one particular person. People should believe in people first, the rest will come. I don't think I would pick this book without reading it back then, and I'm

It is a misnomer to call The Higg's Boson, 'The God Particle' for a variety of reasons, least (or most) of all by asserting our own belief in the belief that any unifying feature in our physical universe can only be defined within the parameters of 'God'. This is the modern subtext of Capek's Absolute, an extant field of holiness, produced in our most unholy of machinations - industry. The Absolute fulfills Fukuyama's 'End of History', is the apex of every Galtian-Randian fantasy, and the



Quite an entertaining book. Not the kind that changes your view of the world, not even the kind that leaves you pondering afterwards (all right, maybe a little)It's good old fashioned science fiction that follows the "What would happen if..." model.A Czech engineer manages to invent a machine that extracts enormous amounts of energy from any material, the catch is that in the process the said material is completely obliterated.Thus, some sort of byproduct energy trapped inside at the beginning

People should first of all believe in other people, and the rest would soon follow.""Everyone has the best of feelings toward mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind.

I first heard about this novel a couple of weeks ago on NPR's You Must Read This series, which, in case you aren't familiar with it, features well-known authors recommending books other than their own for your consideration; your favorite authors' favorite reads, if you will. I was not familiar with the author who recommended this, and I can't remember her name now, but when she described the plot, I knew I needed to read it. Apparently, Capek was a well-known Czech novelist and playwright (whom