The deadline for abstracts closed this past Tuesday and as
expected, procrastination was alive and well! In the couple of days leading up
to the deadline, I received the same amount of abstracts that I had received in
the almost three months leading up to the deadline! Given that most people are
making the most of summer, I was blown away by the overwhelming response to my call for abstracts.
The abstracts were diverse in their frameworks and the movies they represented. I was pleased by the variety, however it has made my review
challenging. Because I can only accept a certain number, around 15, I had to
cut pitches that I would have liked to keep. I easily could have put a second
book together.
I’ll be finishing my deliberations tonight and tomorrow I will
be making some people happy and some others disappointed. It’s the worst part of the
editing process because I wish I could give everyone a slot. That said, my nebulous idea is now developing a structure that in my humble opinion will
result in a cohesive group of essays that explore and analyze the genre, giving
space horror a tread within the scholastic dialogue of science fiction and
horror.
More updates to follow in the coming months. In the
meantime, I’ll be posting articles (weekly is my plan) and I hope to post articles by guest writers
too!
