R.U.R. (Unabridged)

Written by Karel Čapek

Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

In Čapek's "R.U.R.," scientists create human-like robots, mass-produced as efficient workers. These "Robots," lacking emotions, become the world's workforce. However, a young engineer, Helena, gives them the ability to feel, leading to rebellion. The Robots, seeking a purpose beyond labor, overthrow their creators, leaving only Helena and one Robot, Radius, alive. As the Robots grapple with their newfound freedom and the inability to reproduce, Helena and Radius, the so-called "Adam" and "Eve," offer a glimmer of hope for their future and, perhaps, humanity's.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Falcon Press
• Release date: Mar 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9798868661150

Karel Čapek

Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist. He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.