Apex Magazine Issue 51: Apex Magazine, #51
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Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.
EDITORIAL
Blood from Vellum by Lynne M. Thomas
FICTION
Victimless Crimes by Charlie Jane Anders
A Matter of Shapespace by Brian Trent
Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster by Christopher Barzak
NONFICTION
Fantasy Art, Fishnets, and Red Sonya's Chainmail Bikini by Tansy Rayner Roberts
INTERVIEW
Interview with Christopher Barzak by Maggie Slater
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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Apex Magazine Issue 51 - Jason Sizemore
APEX MAGAZINE
ISSUE 51, AUGUST 2013
EDITED BY LYNNE M. THOMAS
Copyrights and Acknowledgments
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief
Copyright © 2013 by Lynne M. Thomas
Victimless Crimes
Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Jane Anders
A Matter of Shapespace
Copyright © 2013 by Brian Trent
Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster
Copyright © 2013 by Christopher Barzak (Originally published in Glitter & Mayhem, eds. John Klima, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, 2013)
Fantasy Art, Fishnets, and Red Sonja’s Chainmail Bikini
Copyright © 2013 by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Interview with Christopher Barzak
Copyright © 2013 by Maggie Slater
Publisher/Editor — Jason Sizemore
Editor–in–Chief — Lynne M. Thomas
Senior Editor — Gill Ainsworth
Managing Editor — Michael Damian Thomas
Slush Editors — Sigrid Ellis, Deanna Knippling, Kelly Lagor, Eileen Maksym, Jei D. Marcade, Michael Matheson, Fran Wilde, Emily Wagner, Will Savage, Saira Ali
Graphic Designer — Justin Stewart
Digital Formatting — Stephanie Jacob
ISSN: 2157–1406
Apex Publications
PO Box 24323
Lexington, KY 40524
Please visit our website at www.apex–magazine.com.
Dedication
Issue 51 is dedicated to Will Savage, one of our submissions editors, who passed away suddenly while this issue was in production.
About Our Cover Artist
carrieCarrie was born inside a house made from a riverboat that had caught fire and was brought ashore. Moving from her early and detailed memories of magical New Orleans to rural Colorado when school began, she worked to save up money and escape the incomprehensibly boring place. She traveled the world exploring art museums and pondering ancient civilizations. Years of experimentation later, Carrie became enraged by a world where it seemed all the great paintings were painted and nothing new remained to add. Out of this egregious dissatisfaction, she attacked her library of art books, mercilessly tearing off their spines and releasing the pages from their bindings. Out of this sea of pictured paper she cut new characters for herself and stuck them on to other painting’s backgrounds, repainting these collaged articles into new masterpieces that she found far more entertaining than the old paintings from which they came.
Carrie Ann Baade was awarded the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship in 2010, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist in 2005, and was nominated for the prestigious United States Artist Fellowship in 2006 and the Joan Mitchell Grant in 2012. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and internationally, including recent solo exhibitions: 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.
She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her masters from University of Delaware. Currently, Carrie lives and works in Tallahassee where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Florida State University where she teaches the materials and techniques of the old masters.
smallcoverThe Involuntary Thoughts of Lady Caroline Dubois.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief
Lynne M. Thomas
Fiction
Victimless Crimes
Charlie Jane Anders
A Matter of Shapespace
Brian Trent
Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster
Christopher Barzak
Nonfiction
Fantasy Art, Fishnets, and Red Sonja’s Chainmail Bikini
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Interview with Christopher Barzak
Maggie Slater
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief
Welcome to Issue 51 of Apex Magazine.
This issue has some exceptional new fiction from Charlie Jane Anders, who brings us a superhero tale from a rather different perspective, in her story Victimless Crimes.
Brian Trent explores the corporatization of the virtual world and the politics of technology dependency in A Matter of Shapespace.
Our reprint this month is actually a sneak peek. Christopher Barzak’s Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster
is the opening story for the forthcoming anthology Glitter & Mayhem, available in early September via Apex Publications. This anthology, edited by me, John Klima, and Michael Damian Thomas, explores the dark side of party culture and nightlife, and this story is a great example of reworking a fairy tale to show the perils and pleasures of dancing until dawn.
Our podcast story this month was originally published in February. Kat Howard’s The Face of Heaven So Fine
was part of our Shakespearean issue, with a riff on what happens after Juliet survives.
In nonfiction, Maggie Slater interviews Christopher Barzak about his story, his writing process, and what it’s like having one of your books made into a film. Tansy Rayner Roberts offers a robust discussion of Red Sonja and other heroines who have interesting adventures even when they aren’t always practically dressed.
Our spectacular cover art is by Carrie Ann Baade, The Involuntary Thoughts of Lady Caroline Dubois.
By the time you’re reading this issue, Hugo Award voting will have closed, and the votes are being tallied. Thank you to everyone who nominated us for Best Semiprozine. We are truly grateful to be in such excellent company among the other nominees. We’ll see you at the Hugos!
I hope that you enjoy this issue of Apex Magazine.
Lynne M. Thomas
Editor–in–Chief
thomasVictimless Crimes
Charlie Jane Anders
Teri Lewis was obsessing about her sister’s bad marriage and the president’s latest compromise, so she barely listened to Flo’s improvised song about pandas and dandelions, coming from the stroller in front of her. Maybe if she’d known this would be the last time she’d ever hear her baby sing, she’d