Apex Magazine January 2018
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Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.
EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief-Jason Sizemore
FICTION
Asylum of Cuckoos - Lila Bowen
To Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit - Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
A Night Out at a Nice Place - Nick Mamatas
The Heaven-Moving Way -- Chi Hui (translated by Andy Dudak)
Symphony to a City Under the Stars -- Armando Saldaña
The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires -- Cassandra Khaw
The Best Friend We Never Had -- Nisi Shawl
POETRY
Treebound -- Mary Soon Lee
Monster: Puppeteer -- Mary Soon Lee
the saddest of angels -- Jeremy Paden
NONFICTION
Interview with Lila Bowen - Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Daniele Serra - Russell Dickerson
Orrin Evans: The Pioneer of Black Comic Book Publishing -- Shawn Pryor
Fear of Failure 2.0 -- Damien Angelica Walters
COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant
T. Kingfisher
T. KINGFISHER (she/her) writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead, Thornhedge, A House with Good Bones, and A Sorceress Comes to Call. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children's books. She lives in New Mexico with her husband.
More by T. Kingfisher
Cassandra Khaw
Cassandra Khaw is a scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal. Her fiction has been nominated for the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award, and her game writing has won a German Game Award. You can find her short stories in places like F&SF, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Her novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth is coming out from Nightfire, the new Tor horror imprint in 2021.
More by Cassandra Khaw
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