Chapters on Guerrilla Games Horizon series
Call For Interest
Chapters on Guerrilla Games Horizon series
Please distribute widely
This call is to assess interest in scholarly contributions for an edited volume on the
Horizon franchise. Released in February 2022 Horizon Forbidden West became an immediate
best-seller and with Zero Dawn is now part of one of PlayStation’s strongest new intellectual
properties.
This call is to assess whether there would be enough scholars interested to doing a chapter for an
edited volume on the franchise. Attention to the games, comics, board game, marketing, and all
other aspects would be considered of interest. Topics are fully open to the specialty of the
writers, though the editor has a special interest in seeing work on the invented cultures from an
anthropological perspective. Other areas of focus being actively solicited:
Feminism
Posthumanism
Apocalyptic and post-apocalypse
Myth and religion
Silicon valley character studies
Genetic technology / Cloning
But any area or topic is of interest
It would be the intent to place the volume in the Studies in Gaming series from McFarland
Publishers and, depending on the level of interest, to submit a final manuscript near the end of
2022 or early 2023. The series emphasizes both depth of analysis and readability. Chapters are
envisioned at the 5-7,000-word length.
At this time, I’m asking for people to submit a few sentences on what they’d like to cover, their
name and current academic status via email to Matthew Kapell at kapellm@yahoo.com.
Questions are encouraged at the same address. Advanced grad students are encouraged to apply.
Please feel free to forward this Call to any individuals who may be interested.