Apex Book Company is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Marie Vibbert's novella, Multitude, coming out April 2026. This project follows a collective of cephalopod aliens coming into contact with humanity, and closely examines concepts such as language, connection, love, and forgiveness.
Apex Book Company has distribution via Independent Publishers Group, and has published award-winning titles such as Plague Birds by Jason Sanford (Nebula Award Finalist for Best Novel and Philip K. Dick Award Finalist), Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon (Philip K. Dick Award finalist 2023), and Weird horror cult hit Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt.
Marie Vibbert is a Hugo- and Nebula nominated author whose short fiction has appeared over one-hundred times in top magazines like Nature, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and has been translated into Czech, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, was longlisted by the British Science Fiction Award, and her work has been called "everything science fiction should be" by the Oxford Culture Review. She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day, she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio. Learn more at her website, marievibbert.com.
