Jablko nepadá daleko od stromu

Czech, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

So, read this, by John C. Wright. Apparently, the first steampunk was a Czech movie.

Have I mentioned that I am a fourth-generation geek on my mother's side, her mother being an amateur Southwestern antiquarian and her father being a man who spoke Esperanto? Yes, well I'm almost certain I didn't mention that that Esperantist, my great-grandfather, Josef Martinek, who signed one of the documents founding Czechoslovakia after the Great War, supposedly taught himself Spanish just because of the Western dime-novels he read as a boy, while escorting the family cow on its bovine errands.

Remember, one of us—well, a Jew, but Czechs were almost as good as Poles about considering Jews to be members of their nation—also wrote the first robot-uprising story, the one that also coined the word "robot" in the sense of "mechanical man" (rather than "sharecropper, drudge").