How does the cultural difference work between the citizens living in the Galax Arena? Galax-Arena (1992) by Rubinstein is a science fiction text that shows how it is possible to create a barrier between cultures through a fictional scientific experiment called Project Genesis Five. Rubinstein creates cultural difference not only between peb members, but also between peb and Vexa; which in turn shows the racial impacts of cross-cultural exchange. The text outlines the impacts of science on cultures, especially how scientific experiments can influence people; and how people using science can create differences between cultures. Some of the cultural barriers and impacts created by science in Galax-Arena include the racism that comes from using other cultures for profit through resources; deconstruction of a human being over time into animalistic behavior through experimentation; and communication through intercultural exchange referring to the ways in which it can evolve or have negative impacts. In Galax-Arena the racism of using science on other cultures occurs when Project Genesis Five, hidden under the mask of alien-other: Vexa, kidnaps children with gymnastic abilities for evolutionary benefits. Thus children become a group used by science, as Bradford writes, "as a resource or benefit, so that mainstream characters gain knowledge or advance in maturity through exposure to difference" (2006, p117). This therefore demonstrates the negative impact of racism occurring through cross-cultural exchange against peb through the science of age-defying adrenaline transfer. The narrative leads the reader to believe that the novel turns into a science fiction novel by being transported to another planet, however with intuition we realize that they have been transported in a scientific experiment, and therefore the novel itself is always a science fiction novel by its nature. use of experimental science. Ousby (2006) states that Rubinstein "questions the truth of 'science' in the scenario where children 'perform in a dangerous circus, where their death excites the audience,' so they are used for their skills by science for the benefit of a culture, the Vexa. Joella discovers quite quickly that the Vexa like "risk, excitement, danger" and so the science behind why children are forced to behave like animals escapes the reader; wrist bands around the wrists and temples, which collected and transmitted the adrenaline charge to the spectators. The greater the risk for the performer, the greater the emotion for the audience" (p42).