Over the summer there were a series of rocket launches. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk would have you believe that those launches were in…
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Wish List
Welcome to the Fresh Pulp Wish list. Here I will list the books, films, and music that we will review for the site. In an…
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Racism in the Monocultures of Science Fiction
In real life, monoculture is an agricultural term used to describe farms that grow only one type of crop. It is also known…
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Interview with an Iranian Otaku
Japanese animated films (anime,アニメ) and the manga (漫画) from which they are often derived has grown into a global cultural force. Our Middle East editor,…
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Review: Membranes by Chi-Ta Wei
Membranes” a thematically rich yet short novel by author and literary critic Chi Ta-Wei. It was written in 1995 but it has been translated to…
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Review: Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
“No matter what the lowest-eumelanin people say, Black Lives are Star Stuff and Black Lives Matter, all of them.” I think some people, despite having…
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Cry-4 Eyeball
“Magnetopause in 3, 2, 1….” Koda pulled his visor down. The doctors told him that passing from space into Tacitus’ magnetosphere would be disorienting and, perhaps…
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Review: Walk Through Fire by Yola
British born “Queen of Country Soul”? Why not? “Walk Through Fire” firmly establishes British born vocalist, Yola, as precisely that. My first encounter with…
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The Problem With “bugging in”
First of all, let’s talk about the democratization of, well, everything. Just because we say something is a certain way or…
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“Inter Ice Age 4” by Kobo Abe
I happened upon this title when a friend posted an article on Facebook about literary authors that had made forays into science fiction. I…
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