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. This novel depicts Oswald Spengler as the ridiculous author Wolf Meynert. The papers of Mr. (*) Povondra make up much of the second section of this novel, a supplemental chapter of which analyzes the sex life of the title (10[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 humans (10[1])after their discovery by Captain van Toch. (-5[1])For (10[1])10 points, name this Karel (10[1])Čapek novel depicting the conquest of the world by salamanders. ■END■