“We must liberate our minds from mental slavery, because while others may help us to liberate our bodies, none but ourselves can liberate our minds”…
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Hidden Black Roots of Dune
Denis Villenueve’s Dune (2021) opens with indigenous people resisting colonialism. The Black, Brown, and swarthy natives of the desert planet Arrakis contrast with the…
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In “Das Kapital” Marx asserts that “the cost of labor is the cost of subsistence for the laborer.” Frozen wages in the US, are clearly…
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The whole purpose of Fresh Pulp Magazine is to find SFF voices, not only in communities of color, but from the perspective of those communities.…
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“Death Renaissance” is the latest novel by Iranian science fiction author Zoha Kazemi. She has written several novels and short stories in the genre and…
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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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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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In real life, monoculture is an agricultural term used to describe farms that grow only one type of crop. It is also known…
View More Racism in the Monocultures of Science FictionInterview 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,…
View More Interview with an Iranian OtakuReview: 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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