Air and Nothingness Press

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Publisher of F/SF anthologies and story collections - 29th Year 1997-2026. Based in Pittsburgh, PA. www.aanpress.com www.aanpress.com/artworks

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Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· 24d

New post in a loose series of highlights of books you might not know but are well worth your time: Apollo Quartet by Ian Sales - alt history, hard SF, multiverse novellas.

Adrift on the Sea of Rains, The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself, Then Will the Great Ocean Wash Deep Above, All That Outer Space Allows. each cover has bold colors and silhouettes of various spacecraft

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· 27d

Look for a KS campaign (Two Intriguing AaN Anthologies) for our next two books (and TCSG: A Second Cup as an add-on) launching August 4. Preview link coming soon. #booksky #sff

Image of the covers to "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" with a very large stature head of a god with glowing eyes in the background.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· 27d

We are back on track with an updated cover - Open calls for "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" are posted - aanpress.com/submissions.... - Please do note we will need to launch a KS campaign in August to fund these two books. Both these OCs are up to our usual quirky standards.

Cover image: All gray and red tones, a figure stands bleeding in the middle of a road of red swirls in a busy city of traffic. Text blocks isolated in black.

Cover layout with the title horizontally spread across both french flaps, both sides of the cover and the spine. The image is of a medusa snake headed techno god with their arms spread wide and torso dissolving into pixels, floating over a lone hero standing on a rock outcropping.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· 28d

On the heels of having to switch the cover image for the upcoming "Are You Everything Alright" anthology (due to potential AI slop), here are 2 new cover layouts for consideration (Grandfailure 2015/2017 dates) as well as front covers isolated. They still speak to me of the theme. Comments welcome.

Cover image comparison. Top image is all gray and red tones, a figure stands bleeding in the middle of a road of red swirls in a busy city of traffic. Text blocks isolated in black. Bottom image is of a busy street at night, out of focus concept art that feels Blade Runner in tone.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· 28d

Yes. This one too which has his signature single person center frame but very much not his usual image feel

a figure with long hair stands in the middle of traffic. very kowloon feeling

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· 28d

A very not Grandfailure image by Grandfailure which might work if color adjusted. He has a few interesting ones.

bright cityscape at night at street level but still something sinister felt.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· 28d

Open calls for "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" are posted - aanpress.com/submissions.... - Please do note we will need to launch a KS campaign in August to fund these two books. Feel free to post question in thread or on DMs. Both these books are up to our usual quirky standards.

Full cover for "Are You Everything Alright" showing a rainy urban intersection mostly devoid of people. Title is small and lets the melancholy of the city shine through.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· 28d

Working today to start the KS planning for "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" and writing up the OC submission info. We'll need a KS to fund these books before we can put any stories under contract. I'll have firmer dates on the OC as soon as I can. "A Second Cup" will be an add-on book.

Cover showing an astronaut looking back at the reader, standing on a rocky outcropping. In the distance stars and planetary rings can be seen.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 11

Here is the full cover layout and cropped front cover without the watermarked image. "Are You Everything Alright", soon to be a KS campaign (August?) and then an OC (September?) along with "Endings". Think it is time and these two books will pair well together for curious authors and readers.

Front cover for "Are You Everything Alright" showing a rainy urban intersection mostly devoid of people. Title is small and lets the melancholy of the city shine through.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 11

Isolated front cover (though I will use the purple tone image officially) for the evening crowd

cover to Are You Everything Alright. cover shows a moody rainy urban deserted street with the title in small letters far to center right and aligning with a pole

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 10

For the curious - a slight enlargement to the image allows a better space balance around the front cover title. Subtle but it centers the title in the darker toned area and balances the top/bottom positioning around the building awnings. Also centes the people on the back cover french flap

cover image to the book, slight adjustments to the position of the rainy/overcast streetscape to better position the title

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 10

On the virtual boards this morning - playing with cover designs for a future anthology idea, sparked yesterday by a quote (and by some spam @scottedelman.bsky.social received). Folds into the idea for an apocalypse/dystopia anthology but only for the evil people. The rest of us make a better place.

Cover images to a book titled "Are You Everything Alright". Rainy cyberspace streetscape in a muted green tone and a purple tone.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 10

This is the cover

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

A new "Tea or Coffee, Stars and Gravity" review, this time highlighting @crossingwinter.bsky.social @roxanellanque.bsky.social and Meg Candelaria (Buy a copy here - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...)

Mostly really good, and certainly worth your time- maybe grab a coffee or a tea and pick up a copy of this book to enjoy.
There's a two or three stories I didn't really get on with, but there's enough variety here to please everyone.
Particular stand outs for me include Coffee or Tea? by Meg Candelaria, Oolong Eternal by Roxane Llanque, and The Worst Stardrive in Paradise by Celia Winter.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

If we can sell a good number of our AaNX newspaper issues we can fund issue #5 - new sword and sorcery drabbles with 3-D images, glasses included. All newspapers printed on acid free stock and tabloid size. They ship with backerboards and in acid free poly bags

Masthead with an old style red/blue 3D image of a sea monster attacking a D&D stlye sailing shop and crew

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

"Spirit Machine" is an anthology collecting 14 new science fiction and 14 new steampunk stories that mix those genres with Spiritualism (think séances, mediums, ouija boards, discarnate entities and spirit talking). Cover by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

A combination photo/illustration image of a deathly vampire seemingly-child bride with eerie eyes

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

"AaNX Issue 04 - How The Statue Learned To Dream" Story by @csecooney.bsky.social . A new story in her "Dark Breakers" universe with artwork by printmaker Sarah Marshall - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Masthead with the title in an olde-timey circus font in green, over an abstract printmaking image in purple and black

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

"AaNX Issue 03 - Epistolary Twistolary" Stories by @bextraterrestrial.bsky.social , @beatriceiker.bsky.social , and @jamielackey.bsky.social mashing together a world myth, an American folk song, and the epistolary genre - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Masthead showing the project title and authors names with graphics that remind you of old Victorian signage painting.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

"AaNX Issue 02 - Snow 6" Assemblage artwork by Randie Snow, Stories by Gabriel Ertsgaard, Jennifer Howell, Anna Martino, Dexter McLeod, M. Regan, and Alexandra Seidel - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... Stories commissioned to tell the tales of the six artworks.

Masthead with vague image of an assemblage art piece and the title Snow 6

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

Did you know we have a full color large format newspaper side project called "AaNX", pronounced Annex. We'd love to do more issues but need to sell more of what we have in stock. First up "AaNX Issue 01 - Emerging From Darkness" - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

"Fathoms in the Earth" - Collection of 24 stories, with titles taken from the film "Prospero's Books" by Peter Greenaway, explores 5 fundamental characters of "The Tempest:, placing them in new contexts, and inventing new narratives for their relationships. aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Cover showing a close up photograph of a plant by Karl Blossfeldt and the book title in multiple font iterations in blue, red and yellow.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 8

#MakeItWidelyKnownWednesday: A signal boost thread highlighting a few of our quirky projects that need a wider reach: "The Glorious Melancholy of Urgency" - 4 provocative Future History/Hard SF stories that share a common opening - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Cover to the book: an arabian/asian architectually inspired city stronghold sits on a dusky desert mountainside. A large gray spaceship is tethered to it by cables. At the bottom an exotic caravan is kicking up dust. All oranges and red under a mauve/blue sky.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 5

What is on my phone playlist right now

list of songs with the word come in the title.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jul 4

Holiday edition of the Swissvale Farm Market. Join AaN at the CLASS bldg between 9a-12p today 7/4. Between Swissvale and Regent Square. #pittsburgh #booksky #sff #fantasy

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jun 27

Don’t let the rain stop you from visiting AaN at the Swissvale Farm Market at the CLASS Building in Regent Square 9a-12p today #pittsburgh #booksky

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jun 27

With an author I have had the pleasure of publishing, celebrating her own first book of poetry under her own Tiny Bat Press imprint, here is a 28-29 year throwback to my very first two self published AaN books.

Covers to Underland and Lack River by Todd Sanders, 29 and 28 years ago respectively. Underland is a paperstock cover with black title text. Lack River has an image of a woman lying down and looking angelic with black lines criss crossing the image

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jun 25

Small independent press books bought from real people, by browsing at small, local independent bookshops. Cover artwork by human artists. Written by human writers. All in it together.

covers to The Girl Who Made A Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers by Kenneth Hunter Gordon and Ruiner by Lara Messersmith-Glavin

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jun 24

Oil pastel drawings on pigmented paper have been added to the AaN Press Artworks site - aanpress.com/artworks/

Screen capture of the artworks page showing the four colorful oil pastel drawings

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jun 23

Soon to be added to the artwork shop section of AaN (aanpress.com/artworks/) - oil pastel on pigmented paper

swirls of oil pastel color on pigmented paper in mauve, gray, blue, and forest green

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress· Jun 18

Current community ratings on Goodreads for “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity”