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 (15[1])a superior “Baltic” race theorized by Dr. Hans Thuring. This novel depicts Oswald (15[1])Spengler as (15[1])the ridiculous (15[1])author Wolf (15[1])Meynert. The papers of Mr. (*) Povondra make up much of the second section of this novel, a supplemental chapter (10[1]-5[1])of which analyzes the sex life of (10[1])the title (10[1]-5[1])characters. The title characters of this novel, who conspire to flood (10[1])most of the Earth in pursuit of lebensraum, (10[1])first contact (-5[1])humans (10[1])after their discovery by Captain van (10[2])Toch. (-5[1])For (10[2])10 (10[1])points, name this (10[1])Karel (10[2])Čapek (10[2])novel depicting the (10[1])conquest (10[2])of the world by salamanders. ■END■