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 (15[1])second section of (15[1])this novel, a supplemental chapter of which analyzes the sex life of the title characters. The title characters of this (10[1])novel, who conspire to flood most of the Earth in pursuit of lebensraum, first contact humans after their discovery by (-5[1])Captain van (10[1])Toch. For 10 points, name this Karel Čapek novel depicting (10[1])the conquest of the world by salamanders. ■END■ (10[1])