"Compelling scientific and emotional explorations that raise the question: What awaits us when we cross the line?"
—Kirkus Reviews

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. What arises is a tantalizing question for characters grappling with cosmic decisions in their lives, whether in their living rooms, on space stations or exoplanets: what awaits on the other side of the “event horizon”? An array of celebrated artists help answer this through the sequential art of comics, canvas work, and photography.

A squatting tenant in El Barrio refusing his landlord’s eviction offer while his nurse contemplates taking a nefarious offer of her own. Star jumping to the next constellation without the girl you love. Stopping a quantum mechanical fungoid Casanova who is ravaging the galaxy’s hearts and star maps. Reconsidering where the boundaries to your body begin and end when you have a boyfriend who fails to “affirm your reality." A meteorite delivers the girl of your dreams, and a funeral that upends your religion. A mineral in the moon’s Sea of Islands mends the Achilles heel of human DNA— aging—offering clones a life span 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?

Whether it be courage, resignation or lust that lead to a decision, one thing is certain: don’t buckle up because seatbelts don’t work here. 244 pages, full color. Six prose stories with art. Three short comics. One one-shot comic (25 pages). Original canvas work. Original photography throughout. Three letters of introduction by literature and astrophysics academia: Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama (Professor Latinx), the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities in the English Department at the University of Texas, Austin; Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University Dr. Marcel Agüeros; and Dr. Mariana Espinosa Aldama, Member of the Mathematical Modeling of Social Systems Department at the Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems at UNAM.

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