War with the Newts
 War with the Newts (Válka s mloky in the original Czech) also translated as War with the Salamanders is a 1936 satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek. It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race an intelligent breed of newts who are initially enslaved and exploited. They acquire human knowledge and rebel leading to a global war for supremacy.