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.
Read MoreTime to Get Serious About Diversity and InclusionHe was testing Cloe, it was his job. She must appear human, otherwise there was no point in her existence to him or anyone else. Cloe searched for the correct answer; the human answer. “Today is better than yesterday,” the android said.
Read MoreSay, She ToyIn the beginning, the story goes like this: a fisherman brings home a selkie wife. He spies the maidens bathing in the salt-cove by the sea, their great, glistening seal skins heaped on a stone. When the sun begins to slip from the sky, the sisters slide into their coats, transforming from lovely women into sleek, dark seals who dive into the water and away: all, of course, except the youngest and loveliest, who runs from one place to another, naked and distressed, unable to return to her skin and the sea.
Read MoreThe Selkie WivesIt’s one thing to have the gift of Sight in your dreams, to receive someone else’s answers when you close your eyes. It’s a whole ‘nother thing to understand what those dreams and answers actually mean and how to communicate that to someone who smiles and hopes you’ll say what they want to hear.
Read MoreInterview with Author Sheree Renée Thomas
That night I dreamed my room was alive. The walls, the doors, the ceiling pulsed and heaved as if they were flesh and breath. The room rattled like the tail of a snake. In the night, dark as the inside of an eyelid, I willed myself awake, refused to sleep for fear I would dream the dream again.
Read MoreAunt Dissy’s Policy Dream BookOur guest editor's issue 95 editorial.
Read MoreNot Here to Check BoxesBooks Worth Your Time is a new quarterly feature where the Apex Magazine editorial team discuss some of the good stuff they’ve read recently. We hope you find something good to read, too!
Read MoreBooks Worth Your TimeAn interview with our cover artist Caroline Jamhour.
Read MoreInterview with Caroline JamhourThe Second Coming was something of a washout, if you remember. It lit up early-warning radar like a Christmas tree, of course, and the Israeli Air Force gave the heavenly host a respectable F-16 fighter escort to the ground, but that was when they were still treating it as a UFO incident.
Read MoreJesus Christ, Reanimator