Beyond the Slime Hole In "Konrad and Paul - Space Station Longing," leisure author Paul Niemöser typed his first science fiction novel on his laptop. In the end, astronaut Barry Hoden hurtles uncontrollably and unsteered into the deep, unknown cosmos aboard his spaceship "Libido XL." But that's just the beginning of the story! Because his friend Konrad advises him to try, for once, a "literary approach" instead of "dick stories," Paul reluctantly sends the "Libido" on a rather unsexy odyssey into space: The spaceship plunges through a cosmic slime hole into a foreign solar system via a space-time portal. There, Homo Sapiens has gone extinct, and Barry encounters only slugs, psoriasis, and other peculiar aliens. The shocking realization: There are no hairy, horny guys left! "Evolution is an asshole!" Barry shouts.