Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1

Whether wandering down endless stairwells, searching for answers in the desert, or reaching out to the stars, for more than six years Apex Magazine has entertained readers with stories that are strange, beautiful, shocking, and surreal. Now, for the first time, editors Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner are collecting the award winning and nominated stories, those chosen by readers as Story of the Year, and their own personal favorites into one anthology.

A Veil that wipes the experiences of war from soldiers’ memories. A witch who faces down both God and the devil to save a soul. A swaying dance that crosses the galaxy to transmit a message. A vampire caught in a web of politics and law by his responsibility to his family. Within this collection, you will find 21 stories that explore what it means to love, to regret, to be human.

With stories by Ursula Vernon, Ken Liu, Rachel Swirsky, Sarah Pinsker, Rich Larson, and more, Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1 brings readers some of the best stories Apex Magazine has published so far.

Cover art by Adrian Borda.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon

Going Endo by Rich Larson

Candy Girl by Chikodili Emelumadu

If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky

Advertising at the End of the World Keffy R.M. Kehrli

The Performance Artist by Lettie Prell

A Matter of Shapespace by Brian Trent

Falling Leaves by Liz Argall

Blood from Stone by Alethea Kontis

Sexagesimal by Katharine E.K. Duckett

Keep Talking by Marie Vibbert

Remembery Day by Sarah Pinsker

Blood on Beacon Hill by Russell Nichols

The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar

L’esprit de L’escalier by Peter M. Ball

Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) by Ian Tregillis

Build a Dolly by Ken Liu

Multo by Samuel Marzioli

Armless Maidens of the American West by Genevieve Valentine

Pocosin by Ursula Vernon

She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow by Sam Fleming

• Author
• Jason Sizemore, Lesley Conner, Alethea Kontis, Amal El-Mohtar, Brian Trent, Chikodili Emelumadu, Genevieve Valentine, Ian Tregillis, Katharine Duckett, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Ken Liu, Lettie Prell, Liz Argall, Marie Vibbert, Peter M. Ball, Rachel Swirsky, Russell Nichols, Sam Fleming, Samuel Marzioli, Sarah Pinsker, Ursula Vernon, Rich Larson

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 237

• Publisher
• Apex Book Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781937009373

• Genres
• fantasy, audiobook, fiction, anthologies, horror

• Release date
• 2016