The stories in this collection, including ‘Jesus on Mars’, depict interplanetary, incestuous, trans-temporal encounters that challenge our assumptions about gender, sexuality, the body, religion, desire, reproductivity, and life itself. ‘Jesus on Mars’ was translated from the 2023 traditional Chinese version of the anthology. Ultimately, ‘Jesus on Mars’ proceeds as a mosaic tableau, in which queer desire and spirituality mingle like water with milk, or saliva with semen. First, we smashed the Momo Stage in the centre of Lixi City, located in the Ninth Quadrant of Mars (Mars has 13 quadrants, unlike Earth’s four cardinal directions: east, south, west, and north); then, we rebuilt it three days later. Like Earth, Mars went through a process of modernisation.