Doompunk Dispatch

Tag: pulp

  • “Today is August 5th, Twenty-Twenty-Six”

    I can’t remember how old I was when I first read There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury. I was young, and it made an impact, as those kinds of stories typically do. This one is required reading in science-fiction canon for good reason. If you haven’t read it, go do that now; I’ll…

  • Proboscing Planetoid Sassafras

    Imogen Binnie famously wrote “while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars.” Meanwhile, Stephanie Klein seeks to deconstruct the rules of traffic, remap the street, and indeed disintegrate the mind that allegedly constructs this analogy. To do this, the author aims…