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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. Contents of this issue: Guest Editorial • Lavie Tidhar After the Fire • Aliette de Bodard Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys • Nir Yaniv An Evening in the City Coffeehouse, with Lydia on My Mind • Aleksander Žiljak Interview with Tunku Halim • Charles Tan
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Tunku Halim has lived in the UK, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. He worked as Legal Counsel for a global IT company before turning to writing. Twenty books later, he is dubbed Asia’s Steven King. By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is regarded as ‘World Gothic’. His novel, Dark Demon Rising, was nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award whilst his second novel, Vermillion Eye, is used as a study text in The National University of Singapore’s Language and Literature course. His short story has also won first prize in a 1998 Fellowship of Australian Writers competition. In Malaysia, he has had three consecutive wins in Malaysia's Star-Popular Readers’ Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017.
Charles Tan is a Filipino author and editor of speculative fiction. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
An Israeli writer, editor and musician. Instrumental vocalist. Founder and former chief editor of Israel's first online SF&F magazine. Bassman. Computer programmer. His story collection, One Hell of a Writer, was published by Odyssey Press in 2006. Composer and arranger. Writers columns, articles and reviews for various publications. A devoted acapella performer. His stories appeared in magazines in Israel and elsewhere. Participated in numerous musical groups and bands, and still hasn't had enough. Wrote two books with fellow author Lavie Tidhar: Fictional Murder (Odyssey Press, Israel, 2009) and The Tel Aviv Dossier (ChiZine Publications, Canada, 2009). Records his own music at his own studio, The Nir Space Station. Participates in dance shows as a live musician. Creates music for films and TV. Starred in a short horror film, his role being that of the monster. Said film won the first place in an Israeli short film competition in 2006. Lives in Tel Aviv. Rides a motorbike, despite himself. Likes food, knows nothing about it. Likes literature, knows quite a bit about it. Can handle a sailboat. Can't handle cooking, and refuses to learn. Visit Nir's official homepage for free stories, music and videos.
