It’s been almost six years since we brought out Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion, an anthology of essays and science fiction stories, assembled with the purpose of jumpstarting the human movement into space by connecting it to the sense of wonder, the need to know what we are doing here in the universe, that is the basis of religions and spiritual thinking.
Since 2015 and especially recently space exploration has gained momentum:, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and William Shatner have gone very briefly into space. Elon Musk has sent a ship with people into orbit for three days. The United States has sent robots to Mars, and the Chinese have put a crew in Earth orbit for months.
But we as species have not lifted off this planet in the way that many foresaw when people first walked on the Moon in 1969. We are still in need of a more robust connection to that spiritual sense of wonder to lift us beyond our home planet.
We therefore think the time is right for a second volume of Touching the Face of the Cosmos. As with the first volume, we are looking for both essays and science fiction stories, 500 (five hundred) to 7000 (seven thousand) words in length (but query us if you have something that you think would be perfect for the anthology, but is shorter or longer). We would like original essays and stories, but will consider a very limited number of already-published science fiction stories.
-- Paul Levinson and Michael Waltemathe
Deadline for receipt of submissions is 1 February 2022.
Please send to:
Levinson@Fordham.edu and michael.waltemathe@rub.de
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