The Book of Apex: Volume 2 of Apex Magazine
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NAOMI LIBICKI grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Israel at age 16, where she still lives with her husband, son, garden, and approximately 2000 books. She makes a mean apple strudel.
PETER ATWOOD is a writer and editor who lives and works in Ottawa, Canada, where he once grew up and to where he returned after living in Toronto, Seoul, and Cairo. He is an alumni of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and his story “All In” (Weird Tales, 2008) was nominated for an Aurora (Canada’s SF awards).
TERRA LEMAY was born on top of a volcano (in Hawaii) and since then has crammed a lot of unusual experiences into a relatively short number of years. She tamed a wild mustang before she turned sixteen. Before twenty-five, she traveled throughout the U.S. and to parts of Europe and Mexico. She has also held some unusual jobs, like training llamas and modeling high-heeled shoes (though not at the same time!) At her current day job she pokes holes in people for a small fee, in a tattoo studio north of Atlanta.
“Shrödinger’s Pussy” is her first published short story. You can find her online at www.terralemay.com.
JASON B. SIZEMORE is best known as the Editor-in-Chief of Apex Publications. A small press begun in 2005 with the first issue of Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, Apex Publishing now puts out approximately twelve books per year from award-winning authors and both established and new voices in the speculative fiction genre.
As a quarterly print magazine, Apex Digest earned critical acclaim and positive reviews over the course of three years and twelve issues. With the move to digital in 2008, Apex Magazine was able to raise its author pay rates to SFWA professional level, allowing it to be declared a SFWA qualifying market in July 2009. By then, the magazine was only one small part of the Apex Publishing oeuvre. The book division of Apex allowed Sizemore to feature longer collections from rising stars within the genre such as Black Quill Award winner and Bram Stoker Award nominee Fran Friel, reader favorite Lavie Tidhar, and multiple Hugo Award nominee Michael A. Burstein. A series of novellas and anthologies from Apex have also earned critical and fan acclaim, including a recent Publisher’s Weekly starred review for Gene O’Neill’s Taste of the Tenderloin.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Jason would like to thank the following people for all the hard work and dedication that make such a thing as The Boo of Apex and Apex Magazine possible: Deb Taber, Jennifer Brozek, Mari Adkins, Catherynne M. Valente, Ferrett Steinmetz, George Galuschak, Patrick Tomlinson, Zakarya Anwar, Lillian Cohen-Moore, Sarah Olson, Laura Jones, Justin Stewart, Tommy Delk, Katherine Khorey, Deanna Knippling, Sarah Peduzzi, Samantha Hendrix, and Maggie Jamison.
We’d like to make a call out to the following Apex Magazine subscribers: Kathryn Viswanathan, Robert Fleck, Brandy Betz, Sara Larson, Jamie Rubin, Lydia Ondrusek, Mike Dominic, Brenton Tomlinson, Inga Gorslar, Nicholas Demarino, Aliette de Bodard, Michele Lee, Dennis Johnson, Jeffrey Spock, Andrea Boyd, Stacy Johnson, Dwayne Taylor, Sandra Niehaus, Laura Petersen, Robby Sparks, Paul Cooley, Jason Sanford, Lydia Ondrusek, Elizabeth Donald, Deanne Fountaine, Ron Dickie, Shelby Rhodes, Mary Spila, James Stitzel, Jaelith Ingold, Jennifer Garska, Sean Robson, Jennifer Brozek, Peter M. Ball, Patti Lemole, MG Ellington, Justin James, Elaine Blose, Brad Chacos, Ken Wood, Sarah Davies, Michelle Hammond, Stephen Fritter, Jason Brock, Karen Anderson, Monica Valentinelli, Larry Caldwell, Gary A. Braunbeck, Allison Bocksrucker, Phil Haddok, Jakob Drud, Anthony Boonstra, Ezra Eisenberg, David Brown, Richard Sorden, Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert, Adam Blomquist, Daniel Powell, Michael Beck, Robert Torres Miller, Hélène Pedot, Mary Clarfeld, Cheryl A. Gilbert, Amy Levy, Andrea Floegal, Joan Ratcliffe, J.M. McDermott, Preston Dubose, Deanna Knippling, Jennifer Day, Saira Ali, Stephanie Folse, John Marshall, Mark Beadles, Richard Gropp, Lynda Morehouse, Edy Prayitno, Albert Fink, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Fritz Bogott, Andy Best, Jason Feltham, Janet Harriett, Catherine Mahan, Sara Siegmann, Rebecca Rushforth, Tanya Washburn, Jessica Gillece, Gini Judd, Shawna Jacques, Michael Godwin, James Decker, Chris Taylor, Dan Campbell, Ana Christina Alves, Stephanie Coxon, Ronya McCool, Erin Kissane, Douglas Hulick, Sharon November, Brian King, and Zuzana Ubanek . Thank you.
And we extend a special thanks to Chris Einhaus, Monica Valentinelli, Maurice Broaddus, Alethea Kontis, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jerry L. Gordon, M.G. Ellington, Elaine Blose, and Lavie Tidhar.
Table of Contents
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She Called Me Sweetie
...That Has Such People in It
Pimp My Airship
Kenny 149
Advertising at the End of the World
Fungal Gardens
Ghost Technology from the Sun
A Poor Man’s Roses
To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Lament
Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys
After the Fire
Overclocking
59 Beads
Wondrous Days
White Christmas
The Lady or the Tiger
p.a. chic
Beyond the Garden Close
The Bride Replete
Dying with Her Cheer Pants On
Seafoam
The Last Stand of the Ant Maker
City of Refuge
Sol Asleep
Laika’s Dream
Artifact
Shrödinger’s Pussy
Bios
Acknowledgments