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Sebastian Howarth's The Synthetic Hunger: Starving Humanity's Future into Rebellion
Space is infinite. The menu is not. Sebastian Howarth joins Mookie in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Factory from Johannesburg, South Africa, to break down The Synthetic Hunger, his debut novel built on a premise that should've occurred to a hundred sci-fi writers before him and somehow never did: every war in human history eventually comes down to food, so what happens when one company controls the only food left? Howarth hands humanity's entire interstellar diet to the Panterran Nutritional Authority and a single gray, flavorless gel everyone just calls the gel, or slop, or something…
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