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=== Plays === * 1920 – ''The Outlaw'' (''Loupežník'') * 1920 – ''[[R.U.R.]]'' (''Rossum's Universal Robots''), (''Rossumovi univerzální roboti'') – play with one of the first examples of artificial intelligence human-like beings in art and literature. * 1921 – ''[[Pictures from the Insects' Life]]'' (''Ze života hmyzu''), also known as ''The Insect Play'' or ''The Life of the Insects'', with Josef Čapek, a satire in which insects stand in for various human characteristics: the flighty, vain [[butterfly]], the obsequious, self-serving [[dung beetle]]. * 1922 – ''[[The Makropulos Affair]]'' (''Věc Makropulos'') – play about human immortality, not really from a science-fiction point of view. [[Leoš Janáček|Leoš Janáček's]] opera is based on that. * 1927 – ''Adam the Creator'' (''Adam stvořitel'') – The titular hero tries to destroy the world and replace it with a better one.<ref name="ds" /> It was adapted into [[Japan Animator Expo|an animated short]] by Japanese director [[Mahiro Maeda]] in 2015. * 1937 – ''[[The White Disease]]'' (''Bílá nemoc'') – earlier translated as (''Power and Glory''). About the conflict between a pacifist doctor and the fascistic Marshal. This was the answer to coming Nazi era in the air, just before the start of WWII.<ref name="ds" /> * 1938 – [[The Mother (Čapek play)|''The Mother'' (''Matka'')]]
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