Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back
Genres: Romance, Science Fiction
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Sci-Fi, Sensual & Literary.
Event Horizon:
Stories of No Turning Back
is a debut short story collection told in prose, comics, canvas & photography, themed around the lure of black holes and their unforgiving boundaries. Introduces characters and themes in To Love Like Venus.
“Compelling scientific and emotional explorations that raise the question: What awaits us when we cross the line?…All should prove a delight for SF aficionados.”—Kirkus Reviews
The books are designed after a black hole. They feature full art from cover to back (because images crossing over an event horizon appear frozen in time to an observer (you, the reader). The only information you’ll find on the back cover is a barcode (that’s Hawking Radiation; the tiny information that “emits” out). Book blurbs are tucked inside the book on endpapers (just past the event horizon). Book design by Aaron Guzman.
Hardcovers (6.75″ X 9.5″ in size). In addition to our lead cover by Karen S. Darboe, in the spirit of multiverses, parallel universes and comic book culture: we have two additional cover variants to make three versions of hardcover by an electric team of artists, each offering something special! Some are limited prints. Kickstarter backers received exclusive digital cover variations to the book.
Our main Karen S. Darboe cover is hardcover with foil stamping accentuating the body outline and inner world, hand energy burst and body grid of Alita, in glowing matte yellow. Karen S. Darboe art is exclusive to this book. This is the orange and black cover you see on this page (roller skate ecstasy woman, Alita).
The Armando Ramirez-Galen Ihlenfeldt special hardcover offers blue and white electrified customized endpapers. Our most customized variant of the book. This is the cover shown as last image on this site: astronaut with hand reaching over space mermaid, Alita tying her roller skate.
The BLUSTERONE hardcover is a limited print run of 100, featuring art from original commissioned canvas work (30” X 20” ACRYLIC AND BLACK GESSO ON CANVAS) printed on textured paper for the feel of a canvas work. The style-writing GoodStrange vibe of the canvas art of this unconventional cover paired with its texture makes this the artists’ book of the Event Horizon collection. This is the second to last cover image you see me holding in a badass construction outfit.
STORIES AND ARTISTS
ANDROMEDA. ART BY SETH MARTEL. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN. COMIC. The human space age is sparked when nine cosmic mermaids descend from the Andromeda Galaxy and leave an indelible mark on the hearts of sailors. First published in Mermaids Monthly, 2021.
SPACE INVADERS. ART BY AARON GUZMAN. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN. PROSE. “Staying hit wasn’t supposed to bank me a high score.” A nurse confronts her fertility, estranged mother and assault—as she cares for an elderly holdout in gentrifying El Barrio. Arcade pop culture, women’s bodies, and Puerto Rico’s history of colonization and resistance.
51 SOLSTICE. ART BY RAFAEL ROMEO MAGAT. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN. COMIC. Jay is taken through summer nostalgia and fantasy as he lives life on a space station in the Pegasus constellation—with some planet hopping, and love. First Published by Women in Comics 2022.
THE EVENT DON JUAN OF MYCELIA. ART BY ANTON OXENUK OF MAGNUS ARTS. PROSE. A fungoid Casanova with quantum mechanical hyphae is ravaging the galaxy’s hearts, and star maps. Belise sets out to find the elixir for her family’s generational heartache to restore her planet’s map making mastery. This story is also republishing in Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Stories of Radical Hope (Mouthfeel Press, 2024).
IN THE NAME OF LOVE. ART BY ERIC NGUYEN OF MAGNUS ARTS, LETTERS BY GABRIELA DOWNIE. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN. COMIC. A man’s words reveal his heart. His actions reveal his desires. Love in the time of holograms.
THE FOLD. ART BY CRIS DELARA OF MAGNUS ARTS. PROSE. A couple decides where their journey together ends when a new frontier in space opens up—humanity’s farthest jump into a new constellation.
WATCH OUT FOR BLACK HOLES. BLACKBOOK ART BY TRACY 168.
CAPICÚ. ART BY AARON GUZMAN. LOGO BY KRONIKO. COMIC. A mineral in the moon’s Sea of Islands mends the Achilles heel of human DNA—aging—offering clones a lifespan long denied. How long can the Antillano family leverage this secret before the world discovers that the end of human fertility has birthed the beginnings of human immortality? Chapter zero of the graphic novel KLON. 25 page one-shot comic.
GUMERCINDA’S FLOWER. PHOTOGRAPHY BY UNKNOWN & CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN. FLASH PROSE. Eight minutes and twenty seconds to find the rogue flower of Spring. First published in WinC Magazine, YEAR.
GALAXIES, BLACK HOLES, AND HORIZONS. CANVAS ART BY TRACY168.
ORTEEZ FUNERAL HOME. COVER ART BY ANTON OXENUK OF MAGNUS ARTS. STORY ART BY AARON GUZMAN. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN. PROSE. A meteorite delivers Nephrim the girl of her dreams, and a funeral package.
EVENT HORIZON SPAGHETTIFICATION. CANVAS ART BY BLUSTERONE.
EVENT HORIZON. COVER ART BY CRIS DELARA OF MAGNUS ARTS, STORY ART BY ARMANDO RAMIREZ. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN. PROSE. A spin around the roller rink expands a woman’s boundaries to a new horizon. In a century that worships fantasy image, Alita confronts the woman she is, putting together the pieces of her mosaic: what it means to love like Venus.
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. CANVAS ART BY ANDROMEDA.