Apex Magazine Issue 76: Apex Magazine, #76

By Jason Sizemore

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

 

EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason Sizemore

 

FICTION
Child, Funeral, Thief, Death by Tade Thompson
Six Things We Found During the Autopsy by Kuzhali Manickavel
Find Me by Isabel Yap
Frozen Planet by Marian Womack
Mountain by Liu Cixin

 

NONFICTION
The Invention of Speculative Fiction in Spain by Cristina Jurado
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction by Charlotte Ashley

 

INTERVIEWS
Interview Saad Z. Hossain by Charles Tan
Interview with Zen Cho by Charles Tan
Interview with Ekaterina Zagustina by Russell Dickerson

 

POETRY
Dysmorphia by Anne Carly Abad
The Dissection by Christina Sng

 

NOVEL EXCERPTS
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Z. Hossain

• Language: English
• Publisher: Apex Publications
• Release date: Jun 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201447977

Jason Sizemore

Jason Sizemore is a writer and editor who lives in Lexington, KY. He owns Apex Publications, an SF, fantasy, and horror small press, and has twice been nominated for the Hugo Award for his editing work on Apex Magazine. Stay current with his latest news and ramblings via his Twitter feed handle @apexjason.

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