Apex Magazine, Issue 17, October 2010

Apex Magazine #17

by Catherynne M. Valente (Editor), Ian Tregillis (Contributor), Brenda Stokes Barron (Contributor)

Apex Magazine is an online short fiction zine of fantastical literature. We publish short stories filled with marrow and passion, works that are twisted, strange, and beautiful. Creations where secret places and dreams are put on display. SHORT FICTION Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) by Ian Tregillis The Girl Who Had Six Fingers by Brenda Stokes Barron Citizen Komarova Finds Love by Ekaterina Sedia POETRY Love’s Ecology by Rose Lemberg Anything So Utterly Destroyed by Elizabeth R. McClellan

Genres: Fantasy

58 pages, Kindle Edition

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.