New anthology - submisions sought

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Woohoo! Well after drifting in and out like a little lurky bastard over the past few months, I finally decided to register. So here's a few responses to comments so far, just for you

Firstly, thanks ever so much for all the kind words. It's always nice to hear that people are actually reading Pantechnicon.

As for the SF articles, I think that was meant to be a regular thing, but appears to have been dropped - not that anyone bothered to tell me either way!

I'm terribly sorry about that, Sean. I really did want you to continue them, but as you're already aware, Andy had to leave to pursue his own things for a while, and I discovered in all our server relocations that we don't actually have your email address. I scoured our forums, but you'd deleted your login, so I couldn't contact you that way either.

If you still want to do them, I'd certainly still love to have them!

I do indeed! I've got an even bigger interview lined up for the next issue (1 March) - can't tell you who it is yet, but I reckon you chaps here will love it.

Seriously. You will. It's bloody brilliant.

Oh, by the way, I forgot to say when plugging that anthology - I'm heavily outnumbered over at Pantechnicon. Most of the people there are into fantasy (y-a-w-n!). So it would be great to get some really good horror submissions, to show 'em what they're missing!

PLEASE! I can't stress this enough! Although the tagline is (at the moment) "Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror", as mentioned this does actually rotate frequently so that no one of those genres is given long-term prominence. I want to see horror. Even better, I want to put it in print!

I was just updating the New Writings page, adding the Pantechnicon link, when I noted to my horror how "science fiction" had been abbreviated on the banner.

That's because I'm a bastard.

Seriously though that was a restriction brought about by the width of the banner, and I (being a child of the Eighties) was used to Sci-Fi. Since there seems to be more repulsion toward Sci-Fi than there is to SF, I'll change it for Issue Six.

What I really wanted to avoid was "Speculative Fiction". Blergh.

... to say nothing of all those 'When Animals Attack' books. You're both right, of course. Much of the 'horror' I read and enjoy is another man's 'SF'/ 'Science Fiction'/ 'Sci-Fi'/ 'soppy gurly rubbish' and many of my favourite authors have written hardcore SF (what were they thinking ....). Same with films like Day Of The Triffids: The Sorcerers: The Deadly Bees, etc. They'll always be horror films to me.

Top man! That's what I actually aim for with Pantechnicon. If I do get a clearly genred story it doesn't grab me in the way that a "dark fantasy" *koffhorrorkoff* or a "gothic sci-fi" *koffhorrorkoff* one does.

Maybe I just like protagonists to suffer...

My only gripe with them is that when it started out, horror was the first thing mentioned on their list of areas covered, and now it's the last.

I know. I'm nasty that way

More questions / comments? I'm always happy to answer 'em.