Apex Magazine Issue 124

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.



APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.



We publish every other month.



EDITORIAL

Editorial by Jason Sizemore



ORIGINAL FICTION

Without Wishes to Bind You by E. Catherine Tobler

How to Be Good by R Gatwood

Osu by Kingsley Okpii

Survival, After by Nicole J. LeBoeuf

What Sisters Take by Kelly Sandoval

Eilam Is Forever by Beth Dawkins



REPRINTED FICTION

The Fine Print by Chinelo Onwualu

The Shadow We Cast Through Time by Indrapramit Das



INTERVIEWS

Interview with Author R Gatwood by Andrea Johnson

Interview with Author Kelly Sandoval by Andrea Johnson

Interview with Cover Artist Martina Boscolo by Russell Dickerson



NONFICTION

A Special Kind of Gaze: Meta-Representation in Science Fiction by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Dialog, Patois: If It's Good Enough for Anthony Burgess, It's Good Enough for You by Tonya Liburd



REVIEWS

Review of The Best of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar

Review of Apocalypse Cancelled edited by Luke Melia

Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise