A great little find this, Space Toblerone by American author Alan V. Bern. Bern put up all the money to commission the artwork for the science fiction book and self-publish it in 1958, hoping to recoup his investment through support from the Swiss company whose produce he shamelessly promoted in the title. Space Toblerone ended up being his only novel, though, as – soon after publishing – he discovered to both his financial and marital detriment that as a people the Swiss’s famed neutrality in times of war and their workmanship with cuckoo clocks was matched equally by their heartless disdain for books about chocolate starships exploring strange worlds made of pralines and honeycomb in outer space.
The book was later printed in the United Kingdom by Puffin Books when Bern removed the controversial visit to the planet of Sodomia and added in the child-friendly co-pilot character of Hornwoggle Chocobear.
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