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    Apex Magazine: Issue 34
    Apex Magazine: Issue 34
    Apex Magazine: Issue 34
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 34

    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.

    Table of Contents
    Fiction:
    "A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell" by Richard Bowes
    "Copper, Iron, Blood and Love" by Mari Ness

    Classic Revisited:
    "Lehr, Rex" by Jay Lake

    Nonfiction:
    "Editorial: Blood on Vellum" by Lynne M. Thomas
    "Reaching into the QUILTBAG: the Evolving World of Queer Speculative Fiction" by Julia Rios
    "Interview with Jay Lake" by Maggie Slater

    Cover art by Julie Dillon

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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateMar 9, 2012
    ISBN9781466120167
    Apex Magazine: Issue 34

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      Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas

      Apex Magazine

      March, 2012

      Issue 34

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyrights & Acknowledgments

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

      A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell Copyright 2012 by Richard Bowes

      Copper, Iron, Blood and Love Copyright 2012 by Mari Ness

      Lehr, Rex Copyright 2006 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. (Originally appeared in Forbidden Planets, edited by Peter Crowther, DAW Books)

      Reaching into the QUILTBAG: the Evolving World of Queer Speculative Fiction Copyright 2012 by Julia Rios

      An Interview with Jay Lake Copyright 2012 by Maggie Slater

      Publisher—Jason Sizemore

      Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Slush Editors—Zakaraya Anwar, Deanna Knippling, Sarah E. Olson, Olga Zelenova, George Galuschak, Sigrid Ellis, Michael Damian Thomas, Andy Arnold, Travis Knight, Michael Matheson, Eileen Maksym, and Kelly Lagor

      ISSN: 2157-1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      Please visit us at http://www.apex-magazine.com.

      Each new issue of Apex Magazine is released 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 The Reassurance by Julie Dillon

      Artist Bio:

      Julie Dillon is a freelance illustrator working in Northern California. More of her work can be seen at http://www.juliedillonart.com.

      Table of Contents

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

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Fiction

      "A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell"

      Richard Bowes

      "Copper, Iron, Blood and Love"

      Mari Ness

      "Lehr, Rex"

      Jay Lake

      Nonfiction

      "Reaching into the QUILTBAG: the Evolving World of Queer Speculative Fiction"

      Julia Rios

      "An Interview with Jay Lake"

      Maggie Slater

      MACHINE

      Jennifer Pelland’s debut novel

      Celia's body is not her own, but even her conscious mind can barely tell the difference.

      The novel is unrelenting, driven by Pelland's unflinching eye and her absolute willingness to shatter her very vulnerable, not very emotionally resilient protagonist. It's a powerful novel, certain to emerge as one of the best of the year. I'll be remembering it next award season.

      —Adam-Troy Castro, SCI FI Magazine

      Available in print and digital formats

      $14.95 tpb — $4.99 digital

      ISBN: 978-1937009137

      ApexBookCompany.com

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

      This month’s fiction emphasizes the tensions inherent in contradiction: dark and light, speech and silence, good and evil, earth and sky. Richard Bowes sketches a wedding between contemporary minions of Heaven and Hell in order to save humanity in this timestream. Mari Ness weaves a folk tale of stories that are told to children when they do not speak for themselves. Our reprint this month, from Jay Lake, adapts King Lear as a space colonization story.

      In this month’s nonfiction, Julia Rios introduces us to a new acronym, QUILTBAG, a more encompassing term for our expanded understanding of gender and sexuality in literature, and discusses incorporating convincing QUILTBAG characters into fiction. Jay Lake discusses his writing career, travel, and writerly productivity in this month’s interview.

      I hope that you enjoy this issue of Apex.

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Editor-in-Chief

      A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell

      Richard Bowes

      The Fool of God, on a mission from Heaven, moved up the Timestream passing through portals from one world to the next. In the second century of the Caliphate of Mercy, a period others call the eighth century AD, he emerged from a portal in Alexandria, smiled the slack off-center smile that looked a bit half-witted and batted the breeze with the crew as he sailed across the Mediterranean on a fast markab to a portal in Marseille that would carry him hundreds of years further Upstream.

      Closing in on his destination, the Fool taxied across a St. Petersburg ruled by the mad Czarina Anastasia, sat in a sled wrapped in bearskin rugs as a six-horse team bore him to a Buddhist monastery whose portal gave him passage to a world where the monastery buildings housed a station of the Great China Railway. He negotiated centuries and continents to reach a backwater of the Timestream and a certain world in which it was June 1960.

      That date was a safe distance Downstream from both the Singularity and the Last Judgment. A wedding was scheduled for eleven-thirty on a Saturday, which its planners had reason to know would be sunny. Late that morning, attendees assembled at the Church of the Holy Redeemer, a well-to-do suburban Roman Catholic parish in the Eastern United States for the marriage of Aiden Brown to Maria Quinn.

      All would seem ordinary unless you were one who could see that the two ushers standing in front of the church in morning coats, starched white shirts, ties with glittering studs, polished shoes and striped pants were minor demons in human form.

      The demons’ names in this time and place were Bill and Bob. Both were over six feet and brawny but different enough so as not be identical (which often attracts unnecessary attention). Bob was blond with the beginning of a receding hairline; Bill was darker, with a slightly bent nose.

      An older couple, nicely dressed, parked a ‘60 Pontiac Catalina sedan and approached. The man seemed slightly startled at the sight of the two, the woman smiled and refused Bob’s offer of a helping hand on the church stairs.

      When the couple had passed, Bill murmured. I’m starting to wonder when the big guns are going to show.

      A family group: mother, father and four kids ranging in age from a girl of maybe six to a boy around twelve piled out of a Chevy Nomad station wagon. The others passed by with scarcely a glance. But the little girl stared at them wide eyed.

      When the family was up the stairs, Bill said, They’re from the bride’s side, is my guess. A few years up the Stream and that kid’s going to get recruited by the enemy or us. Nothing we do here is undercover. Hell versus Heaven’s a sporting event.

      Bob said, One day they pull you forty years Downstream to this world with variations you never saw before and expect you to blend in like piss on a yellow rug.

      And we do it and we don’t ask why, said Bill.

      It’s the minor tweaks that get you, Bob said, the little things—that Denver 2020 where they drove on the left.

      "We lived to

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