This novel parodies icons like Mae West and George Bernard Shaw by supplying their responses, Clickhole-style, to a survey about the immortal soul. In this novel, Francis Drake and the Marquis de Sade discuss the threat of a superior “Baltic” race theorized by Dr. Hans Thuring. (15[1])This novel depicts Oswald Spengler as the ridiculous author Wolf Meynert. The papers of Mr. (*) Povondra make up much of the (15[1])second (10[1])section of (15[1])this (10[1])novel, a supplemental chapter of which analyzes the sex life of the title (10[1])characters. The title characters of this (10[1])novel, who conspire to flood (10[1])most of the Earth in pursuit of lebensraum, (10[1])first contact (10[1])humans (10[2])after their discovery (10[1])by (-5[1])Captain (10[2])van (10[1])Toch. (10[2]-5[2])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, name this Karel (10[1])Čapek novel (10[1])depicting (10[2])the (-5[1])conquest of the world by salamanders. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])