End of year catwalk due, as I dropped a book Dec 2024 that has a plethora of artists and stories to be considered for award eligibility, fine readers and judges. Don’t bother buckling up because seat belts don’t work when you cross the Event Horizon. Prose. Comics. Original Canvas work. Photography. Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, LatinxFuturism.
Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back is a prose-driven collection of stories themed around the astrophysical phenomenon of black holes and their unforgiving boundaries of “no return”—their event horizons. Dec 15 2024, Janus Point Press.
“Compelling scientific and emotional explorations that raise the question: What awaits us when we cross the line?… Pitsirilos has assembled an eclectic roster of creators from many different mediums, resulting in a work that is diverse in both forms and perspectives… All should prove a delight for SF aficionados.” —Kirkus Reviews
Subject Interests: Literary Fiction; Science Fiction; Speculative Fiction; Latinxfuturism; Latino Literature; Women’s Fiction; Nuyorico; Puerto Rico; Greece; Space; Black Holes; event horizons; astrophysics; astronomy; Short Stories; photography; style writing; graffiti; abstract art; comics; human sexuality; love stories; romance
More about who I am: https://www.stephanieninapitsirilos.com/about/
(Female/Human/New Yorker/Nuyorican/NuyoGreekan)
Stories written by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos. This is her debut collection of works.
[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 WinC Magazine, 2021.]
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, 2022].
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.
Book and cover design by Aaron Guzman.
Cover artists (in order of pic):
Karen S. Darboe of Magnus Arts; Armando Ramirez (artist) Galen Ihlenfeldt (colors); BlusterOne.
Editor (if you consider this an anthology and not a short story collection): Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos
Reviews:
Book Trailer:
Introductions by:
Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama (Professor Latinx). An award-winning author of over 50 fiction, comics, animation shorts, and scholarly books. He is an inductee of the National Cartoonist Society, Texas Institute of Letters and Ohio State University’s ODI Hall of Fame. He is founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab and holds the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin.
Dr. Marcel Agüeros. Professor of astronomy at Columbia University who enjoys tackling classic questions in stellar evolution and examining the environments that stars like the Sun create for their planets. Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama.
Dr. Mariana Espinosa Aldama. Physicist, visual artist, and science researcher specializing in communicating cosmology, gravitation, and foundations of physics through images and data visualizations. Member of the Mathematical Modeling of Social Systems Department at the Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems at UNAM.
ISBNs
HARDCOVER PRINT
Karen S. Darboe Hardcover ISBN 978-1-958077-01-6
BlusterOne Hardcover ISBN 978-1-958077-02-3
Armando Ramirez Cover ISBN 978-1-958077-09-2
DIGITAL:
Karen S. Darboe Cover Adobe PDF: ISBN 978-1-958077-03-0
EPUB: ISBN 978-1-958077-07-8
KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVES:
BlusterOne Cover Adobe PDF: ISBN 978-1-958077-08-5
Armando Ramirez Cover Adobe PDF: ISBN 978-1-958077-10-8
Website with purchase link: januspointpress.com/eventhorizon.com
Biblet with preview, reviews, e-book worldwide purchase links: https://b2l.bz/NjvHBi
MOOD:
This book is like you being characters in THE EXPANSE reading bell hooks while sipping a drink at a bar in an asteroid belt with Neil DeGrasse Tyson next to you pointing out some intergalactic sh*t going down in the constellation next door, while your mom is calling you cosmic-collect to remind you of the reality of your messy life back on Earth as you feel the woman on the other side of you slowly running her crystal stiletto heel up your leg.
