This issue features two contemporary flash fiction pieces. The first is by Alex Bledsoe, the author of one of my favorite novels from last year, The Hum and the Shiver, and its forthcoming follow up, Wisp of a Thing.
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefWorldcon felt like a destination wedding held on a cruise ship where you and several thousand of your closest friends gathered for a completely overscheduled weekend with the world’s most frantic activities director.
Read MoreApex Magazine Goes to the HugosWelcome to Apex Magazine Issue 41.
Summer is turning into autumn, and in this issue, we look at transformations. Cecil Castellucci’s “Always the Same. Till it is Not” challenges our assumptions about the thought processes of zombies.
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefBelly rumbles. Step over stones. This group. Together. Always together.
Read MoreAlways the Same. Till it Is Not.In the final decades of her rule that was characterized by an intense yearning to preserve memory, Mon Jiera, Reina of Lusan, Protector of Bisyas, and First Citizen of Danao, decreed the creation of a precise replica of her three maritime kingdoms.
Read MoreSimon’s ReplicaAPEX MAGAZINE: To start off, I just finished reading “Weaving Dreams,” and had to ask: what was the genesis of this story? How did the idea of combining Native American legend and European Fae mythology come to you, and what in particular sparked the passion to write this specific story?
Read MoreAn Interview with Mary Robinette KowalAPEX MAGAZINE: "During the Pause" is an intense story both in its moral questions and in its personal immediacy. As a reader, I suspect I'm not the only one who had to hold my breath for five seconds at the end, or the only one who had to think about what I would do.
Read MoreAn Interview with Adam-Troy CastroIt was Christmas eve, 1970, and Sonny Liston was about the furthest thing you could imagine from a handsome man.
Read MoreSonny Liston Takes the FallUnless you’re a professional wrestling fan, you’ve probably never heard of Al Snow. A wrestler who hit the heights of the mid-card in the nineties, he’s never been one of the wrestling fraternity that has broken through into the public consciousness the way main event stars like Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin did.
Read MoreAl Snow’s Advice for SF Writers