Comics "The Black Ghost" is a fun Latina twist on urban noir superheroes Thom Dunn

picks Pulp Testimony: Beautiful mashup between Samuel L. Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Tamil pulp fiction is basically totally amazing Cory Doctorow

movies Siskel & Ebert's take on 'Pulp Fiction' when it first hit theaters (1994) Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants How to write pulp fiction that celebrates humanity's essential goodness Cory Doctorow

pulp fiction Five inspirational pulp heroes A. Lee Martinez

pulp fiction A gallery of swamp lust pulp paperback book covers Mark Frauenfelder

horror The Mind Thing, by Fredric Brown: excellent pulp-era science fiction Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Samuel Delany's 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male? Cory Doctorow

amazon Samuel L. Jackson to be the first Amazon Alexa celebrity voice Rusty Blazenhoff

books The strange "No Frills" series of totally generic genre fiction books from the 1980s David Pescovitz

happy mutants To do in Toronto: the Retro Futures exhibit at Metro Reference Library Cory Doctorow

music Legendary surf rock guitarist Dick Dale, RIP David Pescovitz

happy mutants Women weren't excluded from early science fiction: they were erased Cory Doctorow

Art and Design Great 10-minute video about the history of movie poster design Mark Frauenfelder

fake news Princess Di’s killer, Burt Reynolds is a killer, and a killer milkshake, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan