The Madonna and the Starship by James Morrow ISBN: Print ISBN: 9781616961596 ; Digital ISBN: 9781616961220 Published: June 2014 Available Format(s): Trade Paperback and ebooks Only Uncle Wonder can save us from the death beam of the diabolical lobsters from outer space! New York City, 1953. The golden age of television, when most programs were broadcast live. Young Kurt Jastrow, a full-time TV writer and occasional actor, is about to have a close encounter of the apocalyptic kind. Kurt’s most beloved character (and alter ego) is Uncle Wonder, an eccentric tinkerer whose pyrotechnically spectacular science experiments delight children across the nation. Uncle Wonder also has a more distant following: the inhabitants of Planet Qualimosa. When a pair of his extraterrestrial fans arrives to present him with an award, Kurt is naturally pleased—until it develops that, come next Sunday morning, these same aliens intend to perpetrate a massacre…