Space Age magazine

RickLewis · 2012-05-12 14:13:13

Hello, and apologies in advance if I've started this thread in the wrong place. Feel free to move it or delete it.

My friend Bora Dogan and I are a couple of space enthusiasts who are both involved in publishing a magazine called Philosophy Now, which has been running for 20 years and is aimed at amateur philosophers. I'm the editor, he is the webmaster.

We've had an additional project bubbling quietly on the backburner for years, which is to start a magazine called Space Age. The magazine would be less technically focused than (say) Spaceflight, and in addition to articles on the technical aspects of space exploration would include articles on the political, cultural, social and economic issues involved as well. There would be articles on space tourism, space related businesses, the ethics of terraforming, human interest stories about life on the ISS and so on.

Life has been busy and the only visible fruits of our efforts so far are a very quiet web forum (http://forum.spaceagemag.com) and a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/SpaceAgeMagazine)

However, we are now ready to move forward again and we're trying to gather articles for a pilot issue of Space Age magazine. We have a handful of good articles already but we need a lot more. Therefore we are keen to make contact with potential contributors.

Therefore if you feel you might be interested in writing an article on any aspect of space exploration or life in space, do please email me. And if you have any comments on the desirability or ideal direction or contents of such a magazine as we are planning, then do please reply in this thread. And (moderators) if I shouldn't be posting this here at all then please tell me and I'll desist!

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SpaceNut · 2012-05-12 20:22:47

Sounds interesting will spread the word to other space forums....

Rxke · 2012-05-13 14:00:50

interesting, but the background of the forum makes it very hard to read for long stretches ...

RickLewis · 2012-05-15 05:12:40

SpaceNut wrote:

Sounds interesting will spread the word to other space forums....

Thanks - I really appreciate that. I've now put up a "notes for contributors" page, though we might still need to revise that.

http://forum.spaceagemag.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4935

Rxke, you are right - and not only that, but that forum style with the Earth and stars has a whole variety of minor technical problems. We discussed this a few times and played around with alternative styles, but so far we've stuck with the style that you can see there (which is called CA Orbital) purely for aesthetic reasons.

SpaceNut · 2012-05-26 20:36:37

http://www.marsdrive.com/forums.aspx?g= … 5#post1735

DrysonB wrote:

Have you chosen a layout for the magazine yet?
What type of Hubs or going to be included in the Magazine?
A Hub is a centeral focus on certain article base where smaller hubs are then added completing the overall Hub.
For example one Hub could be "Life on Mars" From this central point the Hub would have corridors built onto it relating to various discussions on Life on Mars from both current day missions to ancient philospohies relating to ancient cultures theoritizing about Life on Mars. Sub-Hub from here would then include discussions about life on other planets as well thus creating a triangular module design in the Hub: "Life on Mars"

RickLewis · 2012-05-27 15:52:33

Many thanks, SpaceNut, for spreading the word - I appreciate it. I'll join that other forum and answer there too.

Although I'm not familiar with the Hubs metaphor, or sure what corridors would be like in this context, I do think the question is a good one. How would the magazine be organized and what would be its main areas of subject matter?

The short answer is that we're still working on this, but I think the structure would be:
a) A bunch of general articles about various topics; then
b) A smaller bunch of articles on a particular theme, which would vary from issue to issue, eg terraforming Mars, or space tourism, or extraterrestrial life.
c) A news feature or two: maybe an interview with an astronaut or a ... (I was about to say rocket scientist. Can I say rocket scientist? )
d) Letters
e) Book reviews
f) Short story

So a fairly traditional structure in other words - but we're open to alternative suggestions.

Some of the main focuses (OK, Hubs) would be:

Living in space today
Space business and economy today
Space culture today
The technical aspects of spaceflight today
Future developments: Mars
Future developments: The Moon
Future developments: Interstellar travel

SpaceNut · 2012-05-28 07:44:52

I will continue to forward the replies and questions....

RickLewis · 2015-07-10 12:36:50

I'm delighted to see that New Mars Forums is really picking up again.

The Space Age magazine project, while progressing at an absolutely glacial pace, is still moving forwards. Just about. Our latest addition is (finally) a homepage. It doesn't have much on it yet but at least it links together the different online bits of our project, such as our forum, Facebook page, and Twitter. And it has the magazine's masthead design on it:

http://www.spaceagemag.com

We hope to add some more material, including online articles, over the next couple of months.

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