Karel Capek's Krakatit and The Absolute at Large anticipated nuclear fission and atomic weapons, and the paper traces how science fiction imagined atomic energy before physicists achieved it.
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Splitting the atom before the atom had been split
Karel Capek's Krakatit and The Absolute at Large anticipated nuclear fission and atomic weapons, and the paper traces how science fiction imagined atomic energy before physicists achieved it.