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    Apex Magazine: Issue 41
    Apex Magazine: Issue 41
    Apex Magazine: Issue 41
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 41

    By Lynne M. Thomas

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    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 2012 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine!

    Issue 41 features the following content.

    Table of Contents
    Fiction
    "Weaving Dreams" by Mary Robinette Kowal
    "Always the Same. Till it is Not." by Cecil Castellucci
    "Simon's Replica" by Dean Francis Alfar

    Poetry
    "Thirteen" by Rachel Swirsky
    "The Crows and the Witches and the Window" by Rachel Swirsky
    "Cassanova Clay" by Liz Argall

    Nonfiction
    "Editorial: Blood on Vellum" by Lynne M. Thomas
    "Apex Magazine Goes to the Hugos" by Lynne M. Thomas
    "An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal" by Maggie Slater

    Cover art by Carrie Ann Baade

    Apex Magazine is edited by multi-Hugo Award-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateOct 9, 2012
    ISBN9781301423507
    Apex Magazine: Issue 41

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      Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas

      APEX MAGAZINE

      ISSUE 41, OCTOBER 2012

      Smashwords Edition

      EDITED BY LYNNE M. THOMAS

      Copyrights and Acknowledgments

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief Copyright © 2012 by Lynne M. Thomas

      Apex Magazine Goes to the Hugos Copyright © 2012 by Lynne M. Thomas

      Always the Same. Till it is Not. Copyright © 2012 by Cecil Castellucci

      Weaving Dreams Copyright © 2012 by Mary Robinette Kowal

      Simon’s Replica Copyright © 2010 by Dean Francis Alfar (Originally appeared in Philippines Free Press, May 2010)

      Thirteen Copyright © 2012 by Rachel Swirsky

      The Crows and the Witches and the Window Copyright © 2012 by Rachel Swirsky

      Casanova Clay Copyright © 2012 by Liz Argall

      An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal Copyright © 2012 by Maggie Slater

      Publisher—Jason Sizemore

      Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Managing Editor—Damian Taylor

      Slush Editors—Sigrid Ellis, Deanna Knippling, Kelly Lagor, Eileen Maksym, Michael Matheson, Travis Knight, Olga Zelanova, Maggie Slater, Andy Arnold, Fran Wilde, Jei D. Marcade

      Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart

      ISSN: 2157-1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      Each new issue of Apex Magazine is released on the first Tuesday of the month. Single issues are available for $2.99. Subscriptions are available for twelve months and cost $19.95.

      Cover Art (Inle) Explaining Death to a Rabbit

      By Carrie Ann Baade

      Carrie Ann Baade’s autobiographical oil paintings are allegorical narratives inspired by spirit, literature, and art history. These parables combine fragments of Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings, resulting in surreal landscapes inhabited by exotic flora, fauna, and figures.

      She has been awarded the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist, and nominated for the prestigious United States Artist Fellowship. Baade’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville Florida, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia, Billy Shire Fine Arts in Los Angeles, and the Ningbo Art Museum in China.

      Carrie Ann Baade was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1974. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her Masters from University of Delaware. She currently lives and works in Tallahassee where she is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University.

      View more of her art at: http://www.carrieannbaade.com.

      Table of Contents

      Editorial

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

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Fiction

      Always the Same. Till it is Not

      Cecil Castellucci

      Weaving Dreams

      Mary Robinette Kowal

      Simon’s Replica

      Dean Francis Alfar

      Poetry

      Casanova Clay

      Liz Argall

      Thirteen

      Rachel Swirsky

      The Crows and the Witches and the Window

      Rachel Swirsky

      Nonfiction

      An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal

      Maggie Slater

      Apex Magazine Goes to the Hugos

      Lynne M. Thomas

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

      Welcome to Apex Magazine Issue 41.

      Summer is turning into autumn, and in this issue, we look at transformations. Cecil Castellucci’s Always the Same. Till it is Not challenges our assumptions about the thought processes of zombies. Mary Robinette Kowal shares a tale of the Fae in North America in her short story Weaving Dreams. Our reprint this month comes from the Philippines. Dean Francis Alfar brings us Simon’s Replica, a lovely meditation on memory. We also have some splendid poetry from Rachel Swirsky and Liz Argall.

      In nonfiction, Mary Robinette Kowal discusses her writing process and the transformation of the Fae in an interview with Maggie Slater, and I give my Worldcon report.

      Worldcon has come and gone, and we are mostly recovered. We think. We had a great convention. (Thank you to everybody involved in running Chicon 7!) It was wonderful to meet Jason Sizemore, our publisher extraordinaire, in person at long last. I was truly honored to win a Best Fancast Hugo award as part of the SF Squeecast, the monthly podcast that I do with former Apex editor Catherynne M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, and Seanan McGuire. We were also pleased as punch to find out that Apex Magazine came in second in the Best Semiprozine category, which we think is a fantastic showing for our first nomination. Thank you all so much for your votes of support. It means the world to us. We’ll do our best to keep bringing the awesome.

      I hope that you enjoy this issue of Apex Magazine.

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Editor-in-Chief

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