Loved Mars, Hated the Food by Willie Handler
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The first permanent colony in Mars explodes, killing everyone else but the chef. Dix Jenner may or may not have been the culprit. He’s not exactly your regular captain Kirk or Flash Gordon, except maybe when smoking weed. Nevertheless, his momentary solitary desperation changes to amazement as he happens to meet a couple of Martians, who take him into their underground world. There will be a lot of going on after this point, both in Mars and on Earth and that lot is enjoyably satirical. Chuckles are numerous as the Martians inquire sharply about human ways to do things and there cannot be an intelligent reply.
Even better, the book ends with numerous delicious-looking recipes that appear in the story.
There are familiar echoes from other space humourists in ‘Loved Mars’ but the watermark of Willie Handler is there, especially if you’ve been reading his funny two-liners from Twitter.
I can warmly recommend this book. It’s light reading, avoiding the heavy elements of philosophy but rather hiding them under smart humour and they will expand only in reader’s own mind into a bubble of audible laughter.
After your colony in Mars has exploded, your standard programming should really contain smoking weed, establishing a national basketball league, espresso madness and some “ngono.”
‘Loved Mars, Hated the Food’ is available at Amazon.
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