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Apex Magazine at 100: An Introspective
A 100 issue retrospective with our editors and authors.
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Nonfiction
Essays and opinions relating to genre subjects
Indigenous Wonderworks and the Settler-Colonial Imaginary
Indigenous and other minoritized writers have often had to take on the task of challenging stereotypes and misrepresentations, to offer our stories as imaginative and humanizing interventions against the dehumanizing projections of those in power.
Read MoreIndigenous Wonderworks and the Settler-Colonial ImaginaryEntities of Modern Evil
Writers like to play around with the concept of evil, don’t we? Think of some of the great antagonists: Sauron and Voldermort in their quests for total power and dominance; the criminal mastermind of Professor Moriarty; even the endless hunger and carnage of Benchley’s Jaws. Most definitions of the word evil state immorality and wickedness as the main concepts. But is it for the writer to deem if a character is wicked … or the reader?
Read MoreEntities of Modern EvilMothers Who Consume
I don’t remember the first time I caught my mother in a lie. There are years and enough broken truth to construct something that used to look like my life in between then and now. I think about the girl child I was often.
Read MoreMothers Who ConsumeThe Ecumenical, the Ersatz, and the Euphemistic: Three Ways to Misunderstand Identity
The ecumenical approach is an attempt at benign inclusion. The reasoning goes as follows: Barbados is in the Americas, this author is of African descent, ergo she is an African American. That’s nice, but we all know that’s not what the term means and that’s not what we call ourselves.
Read MoreThe Ecumenical, the Ersatz, and the Euphemistic: Three Ways to Misunderstand IdentityBooks Worth Your Time
A list of staff recommended books.
Read MoreBooks Worth Your TimeMars Isn’t Easy
In some ways, fiction about Mars is the scion of Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” except set in a different, and much more difficult, wilderness.
Read MoreMars Isn’t EasyWhy Write?
Your stories are yours to tell. It doesn’t matter if you’re not yet an accomplished writer. In the beginning it doesn’t even matter if you haven’t yet been able to complete anything. Nobody else can tell your stories. If you want them to be told, it’s up to you to find a way to do so, and to develop the best technique you can in order to tell them well.
Read MoreWhy Write?Time to Get Serious About Diversity and Inclusion
There’s been a long running conversation in the games industry, along with their audience, on the need for better diversity and inclusion. The problem seems to be getting beyond doing the most basic things to improve the diversity of characters and the level of inclusion in games. This is true for both video games and tabletop, the latter seeming to lag behind video games in their work to diversify.
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