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    Apex Magazine: Issue 49
    Apex Magazine: Issue 49
    Apex Magazine: Issue 49
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 49

    By Lynne M. Thomas

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    About this ebook

    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. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

    We are a 2013 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine!

    Issue 49 features the following content:

    Table of Contents
    Fiction
    "Karina Who Kissed Spacetime" by Indrapramit Das
    "Titanic!" by Lavie Tidhar
    "Call Girl" by Tang Fei (translated by Ken Liu)
    "Reluctance" by Cherie Priest

    Nonfiction
    "A Believer in Fandom: Can Geek and Christian Mix?" by Caroline Symcox
    "Interview with Cherie Priest" by Maggie Slater
    "Blood from Vellum: Words from the Editor-in-Chief" by Lynne M. Thomas
    "Words from the Publisher" by Jason Sizemore
    Cover art by Julie Dillon

    Edited by Lynne M. Thomas

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateJun 7, 2013
    ISBN9781301547326
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      Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas

      APEX MAGAZINE

      ISSUE 49, June 2013

      EDITED BY LYNNE M. THOMAS

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyrights and Acknowledgments

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief Copyright © 2013 by Lynne M. Thomas

      Call Girl Copyright © 2013 by Tang Fei (translated by Ken Liu)

      Titanic! Copyright © 2013 by Lavie Tidhar

      Karina Who Kissed Spacetime Copyright © 2013 by Indrapramit Das

      Reluctance Copyright © 2010 by Cherie Priest (Originally published in The Living Dead II, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, 2010)

      A Believer in Fandom: Can Geek and Christian Mix? Copyright © 2013 by Caroline Symcox

      Interview with Cherie Priest Copyright © 2013 by Maggie Slater

      Words from the Publisher Copyright © 2013 by Jason Sizemore

      Publisher/Editor—Jason Sizemore

      Editor–in–Chief—Lynne M. Thomas

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Managing Editor—Michael Damian Thomas

      Slush Editors—Sigrid Ellis, Deanna Knippling, Kelly Lagor,

      Eileen Maksym, Michael Matheson, Maggie Slater, Fran Wilde, Jei D. Marcade

      Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart

      Digital Conversion—Stephanie Jacob

      ISSN: 2157–1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      About Our Cover Artist

      Julie Dillon is a freelance illustrator working in Northern California. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Sacramento State University in 2005, with continued education at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco and Watts Atelier. Her clients include Tor Books, Wizards of the Coast, Simon & Schuster, and Llewellyn Worldwide.

      "Underwater"

      Table of Contents

      Editorial

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Fiction

      Call Girl

      Tang Fei

      Titanic!

      Lavie Tidhar

      Karina Who Kissed Spacetime

      Indrapramit Das

      Reluctance

      Cherie Priest

      Nonfiction

      A Believer in Fandom: Can Geek and Christian Mix?

      Caroline Symcox

      Interview with Cherie Priest

      Maggie Slater

      Words from the Publisher

      Jason Sizemore

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief

      Welcome to issue 49.

      We have a gorgeous tale about a young girl who sells stories that come to life from Ms. Tang Fei, as translated by Ken Liu, Call Girl. This is the first time that this story has appeared in English, after winning an online SF/F contest in China. Lavie Tidhar tweaks Robert Louis Stevenson in his story Titanic! (Spoiler: the boat sinks). Indrapramit Das brings us an astonishing experience of a first kiss and the beginnings of a relationship in Karina Who Kissed Spacetime.

      Our classic revisited, Reluctance, comes from Cherie Priest. Maggie Slater also has a great interview with Cherie in this issue. Caroline Symcox explores the connections between fandom and Christianity in her article for this month, A Believer in Fandom.

      Our fantastic cover art is Underwater by Julie Dillon.

      We’re busily working on a spectacular issue 50 for you, which we hope that you will enjoy. As you may have noted from our blog or Twitter feed, Apex Magazine has partnered with The Mary Sue, (a website that focuses on geek girl culture, similar to the Geek Girl Guides I worked on before taking the helm at Apex) to provide them with one of our stories each month, so that more readers have a crack at some truly great fiction.

      Apex Magazine, as a dark science fiction, fantasy, and horror market, often publishes stories that touch fictionally upon the hard truths of the horrible things that people do to one another in real life: rape, domestic violence, abuse, torture, and the like. For those readers that have actually experienced those events in real life, we are, beginning with this issue, providing trigger warnings [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trigger%20warning] to particularly graphic stories where appropriate. We hope that providing a heads up for stories that they may find especially difficult will be useful to our readers.

      Thanks again to all of our subscribers, who make bringing Apex to you month after month possible.

      As always, I hope that you enjoy this issue of Apex Magazine.

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Editor–in–Chief

      What Makes You Die

      Tom Piccirilli

      The first act of his latest screenplay is their ticket back to the red carpets. If only Tommy could remember writing it. Trying to recapture the hallucinations that crafted his masterpiece, he chases his kidnapped childhood love, a witch from the magic shop downstairs, and the Komodo dragon he tried to cut out of his gut one Christmas Eve. The path to professional redemption may be more dangerous than the fall.

      …This is what makes you die.

      ISBN: 978–1–937009–12–0

      Call Girl

      Tang Fei

      translated by Ken Liu

      1

      Morning climbs in through the window as shadow recedes from Tang Xiaoyi’s body like a green tide imbued with the fragrance of trees. Where the tidewater used to be, now there is just Xiaoyi’s slender body, naked under the thin sunlight.

      She opens her eyes, gets up, dresses, brushes her teeth, wipes away the foam at the corner of her mouth with a towel. Staring at the mirror, all serious, her face eventually breaks into a fifteen–year–old’s smile. Above her, a section of the rose–colored wallpaper applied to the ceiling droops down. This is the fourth place where this has happened.

      My house is full of blooming flowers, Xiaoyi thinks.

      There must be another leak in the pipes, her mother says. There’s a large water stain growing on the wall.

      They sit down together to have a lavish breakfast: soy milk, eggs, pan–fried baozi, porridge. Xiaoyi eats without speaking.

      When she’s ready to leave the apartment, she takes out a stack of money from her backpack and leaves it on the table. Her mother pretends not to see as she turns to do

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