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ByAndrea Johnson

Quantum Night: An Interview with Author Robert J. Sawyer

Robert Sawyer’s newest novel Quantum Night is an intense page turner in which a quantum physicist and an experimental psychologist team up to do the impossible. Mr. Sawyer recently spoke by phone with Andrea Johnson about the genesis of this exciting new novel.

ByE. Catherine Tobler

The Three-tongued Mummy

In the flickering amber torchlight, the mummy’s skin was burnished sienna where Jackson peeled the rotting bandages off. When Jackson pressed fore and middle fingers to the slender collarbones, the skin crinkled like tissue beneath the warmth and weight of a living body. Color bloomed through the skin and Jackson watched as one might witness a comet streaking across an otherwise dark sky; the transformation in the body was sudden and startling.

ByLesley Conner

In the Eye of the Beholder: An Interview with Stephen Korshak

One of the things that I do each month at Apex Magazine is find cover art. It’s a task I picked up after stepping into the role of managing editor, and one that I that I absolutely adore. I could…

BySteve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem

Why 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.

ByAndrea Johnson

Interview with Author Evan Dicken

I’ve always loved weird fiction. But of course, that often leads to someone asking me “what makes something weird?” Of course, I answer with “you know, weird,” which may qualify as the least helpful response ever.

ByEvan Dicken

a moss covered mound in the middle of a forest.

How Lovely Is the Silence of Growing Things

Parts of my arm swirled around the room, my vision scattered across a thousand panes of glass. I could see the poets clearly now, dark, unblinking eyes, toothless mouths, their gray-blue flesh seething with unattached meaning.

ByJason Sizemore

Words from the Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to issue 96!

ByRussell Dickerson

Interview with Cover Artist Angelique Shelley

The beautiful and atmospheric cover art for our April issue was created by Angelique Shelley, a concept artist and illustrator currently residing in London. Shelley’s work explores different cultures in unique ways, and her cover piece, “Xeno-Africa,” shows the strong influence of a childhood spent in South Africa.

ByWalter Mosley

Cut, Cut, Cut

Martin repeated the name and said, “It’s a microscopic parasite that can be bred and altered in a fairly simple controlled environment. You can suppress its reproductive cycles and implant it with differing forms of DNA that it, in turn, blends into the host system. Those traits make it one of the greatest possible biological and genetic delivery systems.”