Apex Magazine

Osu

“It was during the great war when the ndi ichie, from the seven villages of Aro, called a truce, and agreed to relinquish the powers of their respective Alusi. The...

Osu

“It was during the great war when the ndi ichie, from the seven villages of Aro, called a truce, and agreed to relinquish the powers of their respective Alusi. The...

Interview with Author R Gatwood

R Gatwood is concise. Writing mostly ultra-short fiction, Gatwood spends words the way the rest of us spend our retirement funds: carefully and for maximum effect. With sharp prose that...

Interview with Author R Gatwood

R Gatwood is concise. Writing mostly ultra-short fiction, Gatwood spends words the way the rest of us spend our retirement funds: carefully and for maximum effect. With sharp prose that...

How to Be Good

During Renward’s morning visualization session, he hears someone running across the apartment landing, followed by a thump and a shriek of muffled laughter. It’s his landlady’s son, a boy of...

How to Be Good

During Renward’s morning visualization session, he hears someone running across the apartment landing, followed by a thump and a shriek of muffled laughter. It’s his landlady’s son, a boy of...

A Special Kind of Gaze: Meta-Representation in Science Fiction

When I was a teenager living in Munich, Germany, I would spend long hours browsing at a secondhand bookstore named Anglia English Bookshop. (For the curious, this was located on...

A Special Kind of Gaze: Meta-Representation in Science Fiction

When I was a teenager living in Munich, Germany, I would spend long hours browsing at a secondhand bookstore named Anglia English Bookshop. (For the curious, this was located on...

Without Wishes to Bind You

Michael is afraid to go farther. Pudgy pushes him on. They walk through the shrouded city, the sound of footsteps all but obscured. Pudgy holds hard to the band of...

Without Wishes to Bind You

Michael is afraid to go farther. Pudgy pushes him on. They walk through the shrouded city, the sound of footsteps all but obscured. Pudgy holds hard to the band of...

BOOK REVIEW: Apocalypse Cancelled edited by Luke Melia

What if the Earth was set to be utterly destroyed, all life everywhere wiped out by a monster of a meteor? And what if, ultimately, that apocalypse … just passed...

BOOK REVIEW: Apocalypse Cancelled edited by Luke Melia

What if the Earth was set to be utterly destroyed, all life everywhere wiped out by a monster of a meteor? And what if, ultimately, that apocalypse … just passed...

BOOK REVIEW: The Best of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar

Editor Lavie Tidhar isn’t kidding when he talks about World SF. As the creator of the The Apex Books of World SF anthology series, Tidhar has long since proven he...

BOOK REVIEW: The Best of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar

Editor Lavie Tidhar isn’t kidding when he talks about World SF. As the creator of the The Apex Books of World SF anthology series, Tidhar has long since proven he...