Apex Magazine

Finding the Next Lost: What Is an “Operational Theme” and Why Don’t I Have One?

One of the many perks afforded a journeyman writer/producer in television is receiving scripts for network television pilots as they are being made. It’s like the best possible version of...

Finding the Next Lost: What Is an “Operational Theme” and Why Don’t I Have One?

One of the many perks afforded a journeyman writer/producer in television is receiving scripts for network television pilots as they are being made. It’s like the best possible version of...

After Our Bodies Fail

Humans are ridiculous and wonderful. We are incandescent spirits walking around inside clumsy, fragile meat–puppets, and we are such clever creatures that we routinely exceed the survivability limits of our...

After Our Bodies Fail

Humans are ridiculous and wonderful. We are incandescent spirits walking around inside clumsy, fragile meat–puppets, and we are such clever creatures that we routinely exceed the survivability limits of our...

Invisible Bisexuality in Torchwood

One of the best moments in any episode of Doctor Who is in “The Doctor Dances” when the Doctor explains to Rose that their new friend, Captain Jack Harkness, is...

Invisible Bisexuality in Torchwood

One of the best moments in any episode of Doctor Who is in “The Doctor Dances” when the Doctor explains to Rose that their new friend, Captain Jack Harkness, is...

So How Does It End?

Humans have always been fascinated with stories about the end of the world. Almost every culture and religion has some myth dealing with the death of Earth. The natural question...

So How Does It End?

Humans have always been fascinated with stories about the end of the world. Almost every culture and religion has some myth dealing with the death of Earth. The natural question...

Women in Pre–1947 Chinese and Indian Horror Fiction and Film

From the beginning women have played a central role in horror fiction and film in India and China — not just as victims, but as protagonists, and even as villains....

Women in Pre–1947 Chinese and Indian Horror Fiction and Film

From the beginning women have played a central role in horror fiction and film in India and China — not just as victims, but as protagonists, and even as villains....

Women in Pre–1947 Chinese and Indian Horror Fiction and Film

From the beginning women have played a central role in horror fiction and film in India and China — not just as victims, but as protagonists, and even as villains....

Women in Pre–1947 Chinese and Indian Horror Fiction and Film

From the beginning women have played a central role in horror fiction and film in India and China — not just as victims, but as protagonists, and even as villains....

Another World Waits: Towards an Anti-Oppressive SFF

“Ojalá podamos crear un lenguaje entrador y… hermoso… para saludar al crepúsculo.” “God willing, we can create a language brave and beautiful enough to greet the new dawn.”~Eduardo Galeano A...

Another World Waits: Towards an Anti-Oppressive SFF

“Ojalá podamos crear un lenguaje entrador y… hermoso… para saludar al crepúsculo.” “God willing, we can create a language brave and beautiful enough to greet the new dawn.”~Eduardo Galeano A...