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.
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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