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{{Short description|1936 novel by Karel Čapek}}
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{{Infobox book  
| name          = War with the Newts
| title_orig    = Válka s Mloky
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| image         = WarWithTheNewts-BantamA1292.jpg<!--prefer 1st edition-->
| caption = Cover of 1955 Bantam paperback edition
| author        = [[Karel Čapek]]
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| country       = [[Czechoslovakia]]
| language      = [[Czech language|Czech]]
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| genre         = [[Satire|Satirical]] [[Science fiction]] novel
| publisher     = Fr. Borový, Prague
| release_date  = [[1936 in literature|1936]]
| english_release_date = [[1937 in literature|1937]], [[Allen & Unwin]], London
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages         = 240 (1990 Catbird Press edition)
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'''''War with the Newts''''' ('''''Válka s Mloky''''' in the original [[Czech language|Czech]]), also translated as '''''Salamander Wars''''', is a 1936 satirical [[science fiction]] [[novel]] by [[Czech Republic|Czech]] author [[Karel Čapek]]. It concerns the discovery in the Indian Ocean of a sea-dwelling race, an intelligent breed of [[newt]]s, who are initially enslaved and exploited. They acquire human knowledge and rebel, leading to a global war for supremacy.<ref name=nicholls>''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', Peter Nicholls, Granada, 1981, {{ISBN|0-586-05380-8}}</ref>  There are obvious similarities to Čapek's earlier ''[[R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)|R.U.R.]]'', but also some original themes.

''War with the Newts'' was described as a "classic work" of science fiction by science fiction author and critic [[Damon Knight]].<ref>[[Brian Attebery]], "The Magazine Era" in ''The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction''
 edited by [[Edward James]] and [[Farah Mendlesohn]].  Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0521816262}}  (p. 45).</ref>