Happy Pride Month from Apex Book Company! We believe deeply in promoting and supporting queer voices in the genre community, and hope the door only continues to open wider for those who are entering our community. We'd like to promote a few of our titles that feature LGBTQ+ authors in the table of contents. We hope you consider ordering a copy and supporting these fantastic writers!
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Do Not Go Quietly edited by Jason Sizemore & Lesley Conner
From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle the fight for what is just and right, and what that means: from leading revolutions to the simple act of saying, "no."
Resistance can be a small act of everyday defiance. And other times, resistance means massive movements that topple governments and become iconic historical moments. Either way, there is power in these acts, and the contributors in Do Not Go Quietly will harness that power to shake our readers to the core. We are subordinates to a power base that is actively working to solidify its grip on the world. Now is the time to stand up and raise your voice and tell the world that enough is enough!
Available in hardback, paperback, and ebook.
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Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling edited by Jaym Gates & Monica Valentinelli
Upside Down: Inverted tropes in Storytelling is an anthology of short stories, poetry and essays where writeres pick a tired trope and are challenged to turn that trope upside down. Edited by Jaym Gates and Monica Valentinelli.
Read stories inspired by tropes such as the Chainmaille Bikini, Love at First Sight, Damsels in Distress, Yellow Peril, The Black Man Dies First, The Villain Had a Crappy Childhood, The Singularity Will Cause the Apocalypse, and many more... Then discover what these tropes mean to each author to find out what inspired them.
Join Maurice Broaddus, Adam Troy-Castro, Delilah S. Dawson, Shanna Germain, Sara M. Harvey, John Hornor Jacobs, Rahul Kanakia, Alethea Kontis, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Haralmbi Markov, Sunil Patel, Kat Richardson, Nisi Shawl, Ferrett Steinmetz, Anton Strout, Michael R. Underwood, Alyssa Wong, and many other authors as they take well-worn tropes and clichés and flip them upside down.
Available in hardback, paperback, and ebook.
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War Stories: New Military Science Fiction edited by Andrew Liptak & Jaym Gates
War Stories: New Military Science Fiction features short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors dealing with the effects of war prior, during, and after battle to soldiers and their families. Edited by Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates.
War is everywhere. Not only among the firefights, in the sweat dripping from heavy armor and the clenching grip on your weapon, but also wedging itself deep into families, infiltrating our love letters, hovering in the air above our heads. It's in our dreams and our text messages. At times it roars with adrenaline, while at others it slips in silently so it can sit beside you until you forget it's there.
Join Joe Haldeman, Linda Nagata, Karin Lowachee, Ken Liu, Jay Posey, Susan Jane Bigelow, and more as they take you on a tour of the battlefields, from those hurtling through space in spaceships and winding along trails deep in the jungle with bullets whizzing overhead, to the ones hiding behind calm smiles, waiting patiently to reveal itself in those quiet moments when we feel safest. War Stories brings us twenty-three stories of the impacts of war, showcasing the systems, combat, armor, and aftermath without condemnation or glorification.
Instead, War Stories reveals the truth.
War is what we are.
Available in paperback and ebook.
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The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 edited by Mahvesh Murad & Lavie Tidhar
The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from western Europe, east Asia, and the Middle East.
From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it's written.
Available in paperback and ebook.
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The Map of Lost Places edited by Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner
A travel guide to hauntings and the haunted, to lands with their own power, and to the communities that spring from these strange realms.
In your hands is a travel guide to the strange and surreal. From arcades along a boardwalk and jetties at the edges of tourist towns, to a rural village in Pakistan and hollows hidden deep within a forest in Pennsylvania, strange things can happen no matter where you are. You can become lost in a city crowded with people, haunted within your own home, and slip from one reality into another in the space of a step.
With twenty-two stories by authors such as Brian Keene, Maurice Broaddus, Ai Jiang, Samit Basu, and KS Walker, editors Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Conner take readers on a tour of places where weird things happen. Places where ghosts are real, old gods are hungry, and towns are not as idyllic as they appear to be.
Welcome to The Map of Lost Places. Enter at your own risk.
Available in paperback and ebook.
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Glitter & Mayhem edited by John Klima, Lynne M. Thomas, and Michael Damian Thomas
A party in a science fiction anthology? Apex Book Company has that!
Step behind the velvet ropes of these fabulous science fiction and fantasy stories of roller rinks, nightclubs, glam aliens, party monsters, drugs, sex, glitter, and debauchery.
Join glittery authors such as Christopher Barzak, Daryl Gregory, Maria Dahvana Headley, Tim Pratt, Seanan McGuire, Diana Rowland, Maurice Broaddus, and Cat Rambo. The fantastic Amber Benson gets the party started with her floor-rattling introduction.
We're waiting.
Available in paperback and ebook.
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The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3 edited by Lavie Tidhar
In The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3, editor Lavie Tidhar collects short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors from Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe.
These stories run the gamut from science fiction, to fantasy, and to horror. Some are translations from German, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Swedish, and some are written in English. The authors herein come from Asia and Europe, Africa and Latin America. Their stories are all wondrous and wonderful and showcase the vitality and diversity that can be found in the field. They are a conversation by voices that should be heard. Once again, editor Lavie Tidhar and Apex Book Company are tremendously grateful for the opportunity to bring them to our readers.
Available in paperback and ebook.
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Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience edited by Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore
Whether striving to protect the family they've chosen, searching for meaning amid the chaos of the world, or questioning what it is that makes one alive, robotic ambition can mean many different things. Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience explores the nuance of sentience manufactured and evolved within mechanical beings. It peels back the metal exterior and takes a hard look at what is inside.
Within these pages you will discover stories of robots defying their coding for a chance at love, resisting societal norms so that they may experience art and pleasure, and searching for their place in a world that was not made for them, but rather was made to use them. These are stories about striking out on your own, building something new amid destruction, and doing whatever it takes to make sure you survive. Robots and AI are more than tools for humanity. They have their own goals, dreams, and aspirations. This anthology include stories by Lavie Tidhar, Premee Mohamed, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Jason Sanford, Edward Daschle, and many more.
Available in paperback and ebook.
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Our community will not be erased. Happy Pride Month from Apex Book Company!
