Apex Kindle books only $2 in February

February 4th, 2010

Until the end of February, all Apex Book Company titles available on the Kindle are priced at $2.00!

Additionally, we have marked down all Kindle issues of Apex Magazine to $.99 (FWIW: $.99 is the cheapest we can price anything on the Kindle).

If this is a success, we’ll mark down other digital versions of our books in the upcoming months.

The following are available:
Descended From Darkness: Apex Magazine Vol. I edited by Jason Sizemore & Gill Ainsworth
The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar
The Changed by B.J. Burrow
Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott
When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom
Prime by Nate Kenyon
I Remember the Future by Michael A. Burstein
Harlan County Horrors edited by Mari Adkins
Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland
Beauty & Dynamite by Alethea Kontis
The Convent of the Pure by Sara M. Harvey
Open Your Eyes by Paul Jessup
The Monster Within Idea by R. Thomas Riley
The Next Fix by Matt Wallace
Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel
HebrewPunk by Lavie Tidhar

For $.99:
Apex Magazine July 2009
Apex Magazine August 2009
Apex Magazine September 2009
Apex Magazine October 2009
Apex Magazine November 2009
Apex Magazine December 2009
Apex MagazineJanuary 2010
Apex Magazine February 2010



Apex Magazine February 2010 issue posted

February 2nd, 2010

This month’s free offering includes the following:

“The Lady or the Tiger” by J.M. McDermott

Many years ago, when I was a boy of only ten, I was in a terrible crash on the cliffs south of Io Town, where nights are a deep tundra freeze and afternoons are as hot as a summer on the long plains. Even now, I close my eyes and I can still see Sheila’s face just before she was crushed under two thick layers of plasteel.

“p.a. chic” by Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf

The battery is a big one, a nice big red one, enough to run the ceiling fan and the turntable at the same time, as long as the fan is on low. And that’s fine. It’s enough of a breeze and doesn’t kick up too much dust that way. Ash, his wife called it, we’re covered in ash. He thought the word lacked a certain creativity.

“The Killing Streets” by Colin Harvey

YouGov’s SnarkWatch site showed the locations of each Snark attack. Theory was that they returned to the scenes of their previous kills, and that people who travelled by the same route all the time were more likely to be attacked. But no-one knew for sure, even now, a decade after Animal Lib warriors mistakenly let them out of Orton Industries’ bio-research labs instead of the mink and chinchillas they’d targeted. That the liberators had signed their own death warrants had been scant consolation to the thousands of victims since.

As always its free (though we do accept Apex army members!) and as always the latest issue can be found at www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online.




 

Close Encounters of the Urban Kind edited by Jennifer Brozek available for pre-order

The themed horror anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind is now available for pre-order.

We’ve all heard the stories of what happens to those who go to lovers’ lane and of the folly of flashing your lights at another car at night. We all know someone who knows someone that survived a meeting with Bloody Mary and another who picked up a hitchhiker that then disappeared. And we all know these stories aren’t true. They’re just urban legends. Right?

Wrong.

Sometimes the stories we hear are true. Often they’re more than they seem. These are the urban legends with alien explanations and the alien encounters mistaken for urban legends. The line between one and the other is so blurred in this anthology of stories about Close Encounters of the Urban Kind that you will never look another urban legend the same way again.

Featuring stories by Alma Alexander, Nathan Crowder, Carole Johnstone, Pete Kempshall, Jennifer Pelland, Erik Scott de Bie, Bev Vincent, and many others.

We’re offering this one with a pre-order discount of $3.00. Get our free shipping and you’ve got yourself quite a deal!

Don’t miss out. Pre-order today!


Star-studded horror anthology Dark Faith available for pre-order

Dark FaithOur horror anthology Dark Faith is now available for pre-order.

Faith.

So much of our reality is determined by what we believe, and it can so easily become … undone.

Editors Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon have created an anthology that explores the dark side of faith and what it may mean. These twenty-six stories and five poems (130k+ words of content) may make you cry, may make you laugh, and will certainly terrify you. You may never look at the light the same way again.

Why should you pre-order?

Apex Publications is offering a limited edition chapbook titled Dark Faith: Last Rites that will accompany the book. Only 500 of these are being made and we expect them to sellout fast. But the only way to get the chapbook is to order Dark Faith through the Apex store.

Don’t miss out on new fiction from Brian Keene, Jay Lake, Catherynne M. Valente, Ekaterina Sedia, Mary Robinette Kowal, Tom Piccirilli, Gary A. Braunbeck, Wrath James White, Alethea Kontis, Jennifer Pelland, Lavie Tidhar, Chesya Burke, Geoffrey Girard, and a whole lot more!


Descended From Darkness: Apex Magazine Vol. I available!

Apex Publications is proud to announce the release of DESCENDED FROM DARKNESS: APEX MAGAZINE VOL I. Descended From Darkness collects all our original short stories published online in Apex Magazine into one bound physical book.

The anthology contains stories by Mary Robinette Kowal, Ekaterina Sedia, Theodora Goss, Peter M. Ball, Lavie Tidhar, and more.

We’re counting on sales of Descended From Darkness to help finance the 2010 year of Apex Magazine. If you like what you read in Apex Magazine, then please consider buying a copy because we can’t do this without YOU!

Grab your copy from our store for maximum Apex-goodness.


The Changed is now available!

The Changed

It’s not the end of the world. It’s just zombies.

Chris is an ordinary guy with a boring job, a perfect fiancée, and plans for a happy, if predictable, future. But when the dead stop dying and become, instead, simply “changed,” ordinary isn’t so comforting anymore. Wandering stray animals suddenly develop a taste for flesh and brains, and while most of the human zombies might be harmless, can anyone really be sure?

With the help of a morning show shock-jock who has recently turned into a zombie and the burnt-out walking remains of a businessman, Chris becomes the backbone of a fight for undead rights among the fear, prejudice, and uncertainty dividing the living and the not quite dead.

The Changed is a bit of a ‘milestone’ title for Apex because it is our first novel-length publication (and 18th book overall). For long time fans and those of you new to our business, this book should be of great interest!

Publishers Weekly review:

Burrow’s debut is a swift-moving, pathos-free, creatively amusing riff on zombies from the zombie perspective. On a day like any other, the newly dead just stop dying, and the world learns that zombie movies have gotten everything wrong. Christian Scott and his fiancée, Erin, have uncomfortable run-ins with the zombies, who call themselves “changed”; then Christian joins their ranks, as does Erin’s favorite shock jock, Nicholas Buckman. Disturbed that the living can call the military in to flambé any of the changed for any reason, Christian and Nicholas decide to start their own political party. While running for senator, Christian must constantly duck his gun-toting father’s attempts to put him down. In hilarious interludes, Paula Dean cooks a zombie fish and Elmo reconciles with a zombie Zoë on Sesame Street. The prose styling is nonexistent, but there’s plenty of charm. –(Dec. 2009) Publishers Weekly

Don’t miss out on our debut novel from debut novelist B.J. Burrow. Get your copy today!


The World of SF is here!

Congratulations to The Apex Book of World SF editor Lavie Tidhar for receiving a Last Drink Bird Head award in the category “International Activism.”

What the heck are the Last Drink Bird Head awards?

As Jeff VanderMeer states on his blog: “The purpose of the awards is to celebrate those in the genre community who enrich us with their time, energy, and words, often for causes greater than themselves. Finalists for this year’s award were chosen for efforts in 2008 and/or 2009. The winners will be announced at the Last Drink Bird Head Party at the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, California (October 29, 8p.m., Imperial Parlor, 20th floor). Winners will receive a bird head figurine, a certificate, and chocolate.” Seems like a noble enough purpose to us.

One of the factors cited that contributed to Lavie’s nomination was his Apex anthology The Apex Book of World SF. Don’t miss out and order today!