Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back

By Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos

Book Overview

Whether courage, resignation, or lust: you've crossed the line. Don't buckle up. Seatbelts don't work here. An adult collection of stories told in comics and graphic prose on cosmic decisions, and their impact. Black holes are absolute yet hold our imagination in their uncertainties. Places where nothing, not even light, escapes once crossed into their borders-their "event horizons". Alternatively, they are places not where things cannot escape from but where time replaces space and duality ceases. Places of non-events. As in the case of disorienting decisions leading towards something inevitable: there is only one direction after the event horizon is crossed and it is towards a future. What arises is a tantalizing question for characters in this collection transpiring in living rooms, space stations and exoplanets: what awaits on the other side of the event horizon?*Kiss that boy * Take a court settlement and leave dignity at the door* A one-night stand with merbeings from the Andromeda Galaxy is anything but once* Star jump to the next constellation with no return ticket home, and without the girl you love* Flowers that balm yesterdays, but erase a tomorrow* How far would you go to stop a fungoid Casanova with quantum mechanical hyphae from ravaging the galaxy's hearts and star maps? * Hack a pirate spaceship for an off-grid trip to the moon to smuggle out a vial of immortality*Love as a hologram*Sci-fi, sensual and literary: Event Horizon is an obliterating journey towards a consequential singularity-or a rocky trip into a whole new universe. Can you live with that? Do you live? Either way, there's no turning back. Stories written by 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize winner Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos, brought to life by an array of exciting illustrators.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195807702X
• ISBN13: 9781958077023
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Janus Point Press
• Length: 244 Pages