Welcome to issue 48 of Apex Magazine.
Emily Jiang’s “The Binding of Ming–tian” sketches the tension of between art and family expectations. E. Lily Yu’s “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly” takes us on a journey of perception, love, and struggle.
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefWelcome to issue 47 of Apex Magazine.
We have some marvelous works for you this month. Sofia Samatar’s “Dawn and the Maiden” entwines love, loss, and belief.
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefWelcome to issue 46 of Apex Magazine!
We have some stellar fiction for you this month. This issue features “Death Comes Sideways to the Mall,” a piece by Will Alexander about a really bad shopping day.
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefWelcome to issue 45 of Apex Magazine. This month, we draw our inspiration from well-known surreal tales of ghosts and folly, blood and love, showing our hopes and fears beyond the worlds we know so well.
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefWelcome to issue 44. We have some great works for your enjoyment this month!
In our new fiction, Eugie Foster brings us “Trixie and the Pandas of Dread,” a darkly humorous take on gods among us.
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefWelcome to Issue 43 of Apex Magazine.
We have some wonderful fiction for you this month. Both Alethea Kontis’s “Blood from Stone” and Mari Ness’s “Labyrinth” are dark tales of sacrifice.
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefI became a professional at SF/F conventions through a retro route; I started as a fan. For years, my husband and I attended conventions (mostly media), went to panels, attended parties, collected autographs, and made friends with fans, conrunners, and pros.
Read MoreThe 21st century SF/F professional at ConventionsThis 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.
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