"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever."

     -- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

Bola C. King is a PhD student in UCSB's Department of English. Interests include, but are not necessarily limited, as of this writing, to:

- Science fiction and its effects on society's acceptance of emerging technologies

- Research in and on Second Life

- Comics and canonicity

- Games and gamers, especially those outside of the digital realms

- Food, and the consumption thereof

- Music, both its consumption and creation

- Road trips

- Warm weather

- The space program

- Lists (and databasing), evidently...

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