Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1

An Apex story can be difficult to describe, but in this collection I enjoyed nearly every one of them. Its the best of speculative fiction, covering multiple genres with an international list of authors, some familiar, many not, but all rich with storytelling skills.

—Horrible Book Reviews


It's (Apex Magazine) got the genre's future sewn up.

—Oxford Culture Review

Pick up this anthology of some of the best original short fiction published in Apex Magazine. The stories include numerous award-nominated works, our readers' Story of the Year selections, and personal favorites chosen by Apex Magazine editor-in-chief Jason Sizemore and managing editor Lesley Conner.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon

Going Endo by Rich Larson

Candy Girl by Chikodili Emelumadu

If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky

Advertising at the End of the World Keffy R.M. Kehrli

The Performance Artist by Lettie Prell

A Matter of Shapespace by Brian Trent

Falling Leaves by Liz Argall

Blood from Stone by Alethea Kontis

Sexagesimal by Katharine E.K. Duckett

Keep Talking by Marie Vibbert

Remembery Day by Sarah Pinsker

Blood on Beacon Hill by Russell Nichols

The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar

L’esprit de L’escalier by Peter M. Ball

Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) by Ian Tregillis

Build-a-Dolly by Ken Liu

Multo by Samuel Marzioli

Armless Maidens of the American West by Genevieve Valentine

Pocosin by Ursula Vernon

She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow by Sam Fleming