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Apex Magazine · Issue 154
Original fiction, essays & interviews
Dark, curious, heart-breaking — each issue showcases stories you won't find anywhere else.
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Author spotlight
Marie Vibbert
AuthorHugo- and Nebula finalist, author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared over 100 times in top magazines like Nature, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and been translated into Czech, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review. She is the editor of the 2026 Triangulation anthology Bad Romance. She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.
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