Apex Magazine -- Issue 53

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!

FICTION
Becca at the End of the World by Shira Lipkin
Grey in the Gauge of His Storm by Damien Angelica Walters
An Assualt of Color by Mari Ness
Shatter by Kelly McCullough

NONFICTION
A Hammer with an Edge: Swords in Fantasy Literature by Douglas Hulick
Interview with Kelly McCullough
First Intermission: The Day the Movies Came Knocking at My Door or "I'm Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. DeMille" by Gary A. Braunbeck
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief by Lynne M. Thomas

Cover art by Bruce Holwerda.

Edited by multi-Hugo Award-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas.