Just finished a book from the 1930s by a Czech author Karel Čapek called War with the Newts.

It’s sci-fi based on earth in 1930s but what I found the most interesting is

1. seeing an author from 1930s write and think on paper (casual racism and sexism, for example),

2. the echoes of the looming WWII

3. the retro futurism - I love seeing what people from the past imagined would happen with technology. They are often right, often cutely wrong.