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Apex Book Company has published dark, boundary-pushing speculative fiction since 2005 — the stories readers describe as haunting, wrenching, and impossible to forget.

The cover of Apex Magazine Issue 154 features a digital painting of a woman with a golden halo, encircled by black birds in flight. The text highlights contributing authors and magazine information, with original fiction, flash fiction, and essays included.

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

Cristina Jurado is a bilingual author and editor who writes in Spanish and English. She has received the Ignotus Award (Spain’s Hugos) for Best Story and her project SuperSonic was also celebrated as Best Magazine. Cristina was the driving force behind Alucinadas (Palabaristas), the first anthology of female Spanish SF short stories, translated into English as Spanish Women of Wonder, and is now working on Infiltradas, a collective book of feminist articles on genre literature. Her latest collection of stories, Alphaland (Nevsky Books), is available in English. She lives in Dubai and blogs at Más ficción que ciencia.

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