V | The Giant Spider InvasionTHIS IS IT. The Food of the Gods, about which he has read so much, has come to town: it is playing at the East Sprague Drive-in Theater, the second feature in a triple-bill which includes Empire of the Ants and The Giant Spider Invasion. They head out after Walter Cronkite and the local news, which, because it is a slow news day, is full of nothing but generalized doom: sun flares heating the top layers of Earth’s atmosphere and increasing the drag on Skylab—America’s abandoned space station—potentially causing it to fall anywhere, even Spokane; the U.S. Geological Survey predicting earthquakes and a possible eruption at Mount St. Helens, only a few hundred miles away; illegal aliens coming up from Mexico, from Haiti, from California, as well as Africanized kil
