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    Apex Magazine Issue 5
    Apex Magazine Issue 5
    Apex Magazine Issue 5
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    Apex Magazine Issue 5

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    Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.

    FICTION
    After the Fire by Aliette de Bodard
    Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys by Nir Yaniv
    An Evening in the City Coffeehouse, With Lydia on My Mind by Aleksander Ziljak

    NONFICTION
    Guest Editorial by Lavie Tidhar
    Interview with Tunku Halim by Charles Tan

    International SF-themed issue.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateNov 22, 2010
    ISBN9781458087454
    Apex Magazine Issue 5

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      Apex Magazine Issue 5 - Apex Book Company

      Apex Magazine Issue 5

      September 2009

      Aliette de Bodard Nir Yaniv Alexsander Žiljak Charles Tan

      Apex Publications

      Guest Editorial Copyright © 2009 by Lavie Tidhar

      After the Fire Copyright © 2009 by Aliette de Bodard

      Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys Copyright © 2009 by Nir Yaniv

      An Evening in the City Coffeehouse, With Lydia on My Mind Copyright © 2009 by Aleksander Žiljak (Originally appeared in The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar, 2009, Apex Publications)

      Interview with Tunku Halim Copyright © 2009 by Charles Tan

      Cover art by user Bessi on Pixabay.com

      Publisher/Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart

      ISSN: 2157-1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      Contents

      Guest Editorial

      Lavie Tidhar

      After the FIre

      Aliette de Bodard

      Benjamin Schneider’s Little Grey

      Nir Yaniv

      An Evening in the City Coffeehouse, with Lydia on My Mind

      Aleksander Žiljak

      Interview with Tunku Halim

      Charles Tan

      The Apex Book of World SF Ad

      Guest Editorial

      Lavie Tidhar

      I am delighted to welcome you to the special World SF issue of Apex Magazine. This month, The Apex Book of World SF is officially released, an anthology of fifteen stories of science fiction, fantasy and horror from around the world. This issue is in celebration of that book, and of some of the great writers working in speculative fiction around the world today.

      Our first story comes from Israeli writer Nir Yaniv—Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys is a story I fell in love with as soon as I read it in the Hebrew, and I knew straight away I wanted it for this issue. Yaniv takes a hackneyed theme and does something weird and wonderful with it in a story of obsession, love…and little grey aliens. Yaniv’s contribution to The Apex Book of World SF, Cinderers, is equally funny and strange, and I do hope you pick up a copy to read it.

      Our second contributor was an equally easy choice. French writer Aliette de Bodard is a fast-rising star in the world of science fiction, with stories appearing pretty much everywhere, a Campbell Award nomination, and not less than three novels forthcoming from HarperCollins’ new Angry Robot imprint. Aliette’s After the Fire combines science fiction and horror in the best tradition ofApex Magazine, and I do hope you like it as much as I did. Aliette’s contribution to the anthology, meanwhile, the novelette The Lost Xuyan Bride, is a wild noir romp in a complex alternate history. Again, I hope you might pick up a copy to read it.

      Our third contribution is a sample story from the anthology by Croatian writer Aleksandar Žiljak—An Evening in the City Coffeehouse, With Lydia on My Mind, a mixture of Men in Black and Boogie Nights — and who could resist that tagline?

      Finally, we have an interview with Malaysian writer Tunku Halim, conducted by Charles Tan. You can read interviews with the rest of the anthology contributors all this month over at SF Signal.

      I hope you enjoy this issue!

      After the FIre

      Aliette de Bodard

      Aliette de Bodard lives in Paris and has been publishing stories steadily since 2006, several of which take place in the world of this story. She won the Writers of the Future competition in 2007, and is currently working on more stories and a novel. She was a 2008 nominee for the Campbell Award.

      In her dreams, Jiaotan saw Father: hands outstretched, the flesh of the fingers fraying away to reveal the yellowed, tapered shape of bones, the deep-set eyes bulging in their sockets, pleading, begging her to take him away.

      You’re dead, she whispered. Rest in peace, with the Ancestors—watch over us from Heaven.

      But the Ancestors were bones and dried sinews, shambling upright from the wreck of their graves—anger shining in the hollows of their eye sockets as they walked past the devastated gardens, the withered trees, the dried-out waterfalls and rivers. And clouds marched across Heaven, a billowing mass of sickly grey spreading

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