Mars Needs Lunch, by Jimmy Crater and June Crater-Crash

No one would have believed in the last years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves with making their bread they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise yeast.

Mars Needs Lunch, by Jimmy Crater, based on a screenplay by June Crater-Crash is a work of speculative fiction presuming that what sets the human race apart from other galactic life forms is not its compassion, intelligence, nor ability to reason--none of which are superlative--but its cooking. As dense with surrealist humor as a neutron star, with an unabashed nostalgia for the unfashionable middle west, Jimmy Crater has established himself as a marginal enigma in Milky way literature. Mars Needs Lunch is science fiction where science doesn't much get in the way.