The Best of Abyss & Apex Volume One

by Wendy S. Delmater (Editor), Ken Scholes (Contributor), Lisa Mantchev (Contributor)

The honorable mentions from Abyss & Apex. Imaginative stories and poetry by science fiction and fantasy's rising stars including Ken Scholes, Lisa Mantchev, Jude-Marie Green, Yoon Ha Lee, Jay Lake, Justin Stanchfield, and more.

Contents:
The night the stars sang out my name / Ken Scholes --
Interfaith / Lisa Mantchev --
Lament for Titan / Robin M. Mayhall --
Godspeed, Inc. / Vincent Miskell --
Night is my house / Christopher Vera --
Metamorphoses in amber / Tony Pi --
City of beautiful nonsense / Justin Howe --
New spectacles / Will McIntosh --
The devil you know / Heidi Kneale --
Dear yourself / Yoon Ha Lee --
Nomad / Karl Bunker --
Stories of the alien invasion / Manek Mistry --
A clockwork break / Shawn Scarber --
The knife / Jason L. Corner --
Hour by hour / Lindsey Duncan --
The watchers / Patricia Kelly --
In the season of blue storms / Jude-Marie Green --
A season with the geese / Rachel Swirsky --
Goddess / Jon Hansen --
Quantum semantics / Norman Ball --
When Maxwell's demon met Schrödinger's cat / Jack Hillman --
Fading away / Jay Lake --
The man behind the curtain / Joseph Paul Haines --
God's guitar / Justin Stanchfield --
Twelve dancing daughters / Pam McNew --
Unicorn's rest / Jill Knowles --
The first stranger / Kristine Ong Muslim --
The sea a deeper black / Tim Pratt --
Museum beetles / Simon Kewin --
Four-dimensional chess / Robert Saunders --
Wikihistory / Desmond Warzel.

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories

296 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2009

About the author

Wendy S. Delmater is the author of Confessions of a Female Safety Engineer, Better Dating Through Engineering, Writing the Entertaining Story, and has been Editor at Abyss & Apex Magazine since 2006. She also edited The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volumes 1 through 3.

A transplanted New Yorker, she now lives in Lexington, SC. Wendy’s Amazon Author page is https://www.amazon.com/Wendy-S.-Delma...
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Twitter handle: @safewite

Reviews

[Gerri Leen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely readable anthology published by Hadley Rille Books and comprised of stories that appeared in the magazine Abyss and Apex. The book has an excellent mix of stories and poems, well balanced in terms of mood and lengths. All stories are speculative in nature, many with a small to large dash of hope mixed in with the angst. Standout stories for me were: "Interfaith" by Lisa Mantchev, "Stories of the Alien Invasion" by Manke Mistry, "Fading Away" by Jay Lake, "God's Guitar" by Justin Stanchfield, "Wikihistory" by Desmond Warzel, and the extremely succinct but thought-provoking poem "four dimensional chess" by Robert Saunders. Definitely a collection to read.

Rated: A

[Elizabeth Hunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very good collection of short stories and poetry. There were a couple of pieces that I really hope the authors might expand to novel length and the last piece cracked me up repeatedly.