Electric Agora (archive)

Tag: Science Fiction

  • Growing Up Metal

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ Though not really Metal – something I’ll try to define at some point – my first love for hard rock music came when I was in the third grade, in the form of the band KISS.  It was 1976, and KISS was perceived as edgy and dangerous and could be…

  • Remembering Hal Colebatch

    by Mark English If you grew up in London or New York or any other city with a strong literary and/or cinematic tradition or even in towns (such as many in Europe) with strong local traditions and customs, the geography of your childhood has an enhanced reality. I grew up in possibly the most isolated…

  • Science, Fantasy and Religion

    by Mark English Maybe I have read just one too many articles promoting the so-called simulation hypothesis. Maybe I have seen just one too many populist videos purportedly dealing with scientific topics but which, in order to maximize audience numbers, manage to leave all the hard and interesting stuff out and focus instead on presentational…