Apex Magazine, Issue 17, October 2010

Apex Magazine #17

by Catherynne M. Valente, Ian Tregillis, Brenda Stokes Barron

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.

Original Fiction:
“Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)” by Ian Tregillis
“The Girl Who Had Six Fingers” by Brenda Stokes Barron

Reprint:
“Citizen Komarova Finds Love” by Ekaterina Sedia (originally appeared in EXOTIC GOTHIC 3)

Poetry:
“Love’s Ecology” by Rose Lemberg
“Anything So Utterly Destroyed” by Elizabeth McClellan

Genres: Fantasy

Nook

First published October 3, 2010

About the author

Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan.

She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.

Reviews

[Adam Shaeffer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ian Tregillis' "Still Life" is an exquisite story that fully deserves its place on the Locus recommended reading list. If it were the only piece in this magazine I would give it 5 stars. The other stories were alright and the poems were strange and intriguing, but not nearly as compelling for me as "Still Life".

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

My poem "Anything So Utterly Destroyed" appears in this excellent issue of Apex, along with a great story by Ekaterina Sedia.