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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. Our May issue is sure to delight as the stories happen to swing back toward dark SF. Jeremy R. Butler channels the adventure and dangers of deep space mining with his "Recipe Collecting in the Asteroid Belt." Annalee Newitz explores love and particle physics in "Twilight of the Eco-Terrorist." Our classic reprint is Will Ludwigsen's chilling "In Search Of" where the answers to all your questions are better left unknown. Apex presents two poetry selections this month. The first is "Black, Red, White" by Rachel Swirsky. The second is Elizabeth McClellan's "The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos." Finally, Monica Valentinelli gives fans and writers some important tips on how to enjoy the world of literary fan conventions with "Grab Your Badge. Ready, Set, Meet!" Apex Magazine is edited by award-winning author and editor Catherynne M. Valente. Subscriptions are available for $19.95 per year (12 issues) from our friends at Weightless Books.
Authors
Monica Valentinelli is a writer, editor, and game developer who lurks in the dark. She writes both original and media tie-in fiction and works on games and comics, too. To date, she has over seven dozen creative credits with more on the way. Monica is best known for her work related to the Firefly TV show by Joss Whedon. She was the lead writer and developer for the award-winning line of Firefly RPG books, and also wrote the Firefly: The Gorramn Shiniest Language Guide and Dictionary in the ‘Verse which was released from Titan Publishing in April 2016. Published stories and games include “Tomorrow’s Precious Lambs” for Extreme Zombies, “The Dig” for the Lovecraft Zine, Dread Names, Red List for Vampire: the Masquerade, and Unknown Armies Third Edition. Monica also completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for a co-edited anthology titled Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling from Apex Book Company which will be released in December 2016. Her debut comic "Last /Man/ Zombie Standing" was published in 2013 as part of the Unfashioned Creatures: A Frankenstein Anthology from Red Stylo Media. You can discover more of the author’s creative works through her website. Her books, comics, and games are available on Amazon.com, DriveThruFiction.com, DriveThruRPG.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and wherever books are sold.
Will Ludwigsen's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Blood Lite, Interfictions 2, and many other places. The intersection of these strange and scattered venues seems to be Will's fascination with weird mystery: signs of a dark and sublime imagination behind the universe. If he doesn't see those signs, he's more than happy to add them himself.
Nerd by way of MIT; Shrink by way of Columbia; Writer by way of the bookstore.
