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Apex Magazine is an award-winning digital genre zine of short fiction. EDITORIAL Our Audacity by Maurice Broaddus Words from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason Sizemore FICTION Dune Song by Suyi Davies Okungbawa Fugue State by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due N-Coin by Tobias S. Buckell Pimp My Airship (novel excerpt) by Maurice Broaddus Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good by LaShawn M. Wanak When We Dream We Are Our God by Wole Talabi NONFICTION Let's Talk About Afrofuturism by Troy L. Wiggins INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Steven Barnes by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Godwin Akpan by Russell Dickerson
Authors

Also known as Suyi Davies (writing for young readers) Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian author of fantasy, science fiction and general speculative work. His latest novels include Son of the Storm and Warrior of the Wind , both of the epic fantasy trilogy, The Nameless Republic. His debut godpunk fantasy novel David Mogo, Godhunter won the 2020 Nommo Award for Best Novel. His shorter works have appeared in various periodicals and anthologies and have been nominated for various awards. He also writes for younger audiences as Suyi Davies. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa.



TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is the award-winning author of The Wishing Pool & Other Stories and the upcoming The Reformatory ("A masterpiece"—Library Journal). She and her husband, Steven Barnes, co-wrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!" A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason.