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    Apex Magazine: Issue 39
    Apex Magazine: Issue 39
    Apex Magazine: Issue 39
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 39

    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.

    Fiction
    “Waiting for Beauty” by Marie Brennan
    “Murdered Sleep” by Kat Howard
    “Armless Maidens of the American West” by Genevieve Valentine
    “Undercity” by Nir Yaniv

    Nonfiction
    “Editorial: Blood on Vellum” by Lynne M. Thomas
    "Mighty Axes and Beer Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves in Fantasy” by Jim C. Hines
    “An Interview with Genevieve Valentine” by Maggie Slater

    A 2012 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine!

    Cover art “Theatre of Deception” by Ekaterina Zagustina

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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateAug 4, 2012
    ISBN9781476216089
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      Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas

      APEX MAGAZINE

      ISSUE 39, AUGUST 2012

      EDITED BY LYNNE M. THOMAS

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyrights and Acknowledgments

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

      Waiting for Beauty Copyright 2012 by Marie Brennan

      Murdered Sleep Copyright 2012 by Kat Howard

      Armless Maidens of the American West Copyright 2012 by Genevieve Valentine

      Undercity Copyright 2012 by Nir Yaniv (Originally appeared in The Apex Book of World SF 2 edited by Lavie Tidhar, Apex Publications, 2012)

      Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves in Fantasy Copyright 2012 by Jim C. Hines

      An Interview with Genevieve Valentine Copyright 2012 by Maggie Slater

      Publisher—Jason Sizemore

      Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Managing Editor—Damian Taylor

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

      Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart

      ISSN: 2157-1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      Please visit our website 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 Theatre of Deception

      By Ekaterina Zagustina

      Ekaterina Zagustina (aka KatjaFaith) is a Russian illustrator and photographer. The base of most of her works is a photograph, digitally manipulated and/or mixed with digital painting. Among her publications are several book covers for Apex Publications, Viaje a Bizancio Ediciones, cover art for The Sorrow King by Andersen Prunty, as well as other book illustrations and CD-covers (USA, Canada, Spain, Russia). Ekaterina is a Gold Medal holder in the sub-categories of Trierenberg Super Circuit and Special Themes Circuit 2012 (for Nutcracker). Examples of her work can be found at http://katjafaith.carbonmade.com/.

      Table of Contents

      Editorial

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

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Fiction

      Waiting for Beauty

      Marie Brennan

      Murdered Sleep

      Kat Howard

      Armless Maidens of the American West

      Genevieve Valentine

      Undercity

      Nir Yaniv

      Nonfiction

      Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves in Fantasy

      Jim C. Hines

      An Interview with Genevieve Valentine

      Maggie Slater

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

      Welcome to Issue 39 of Apex Magazine.

      Since last we met, Hugo Award voting has closed, and our fate has been decided. We await the decision of the Hugo voting community with great anticipation, and remain honored to be among such a distinguished group of fellow nominees. Publisher Jason Sizemore, former Editor Catherynne M. Valente, Managing Editor Damian Taylor, and I will all be at WorldCon. Do please say hello if you like.

      In the meantime, we’ve kept out of trouble by bringing you some excellent new fiction and nonfiction.

      Marie Brennan examines the Beauty and the Beast tale from a different angle in Waiting for Beauty. Kat Howard takes us behind and through our dream masks in Murdered Sleep, and Genevieve Valentine brings us a story of a grad student with an unusual but worthy research project in Armless Maidens of the American West. Our classic revisited is Undercity, a tale of the life and death of a city by Nir Yaniv previously offered as an early-subscriber bonus story in The Apex Book of World SF 2 edited by Lavie Tidhar.

      This issue also features an interview with Genevieve Valentine by Maggie Slater and an essay about the portrayals of little people in SF/F by Jim C. Hines. Our cover art is by artist Ekaterina Zagustina.

      As always, all this lovely work is also delivered monthly in a tidy package to our subscribers in their preferred e-reader format. Thanks to all of our subscribers!

      To keep up with us between issues, please like us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/apexmag), and follow us on Twitter (@apexmag).

      I hope that you enjoy this issue of Apex Magazine.

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Editor-in-Chief

      The Apex Book of World SF 2

      Edited by Lavie Tidhar

      Featuring

      Lauren Beukes, Will Elliott, Nnedi Okorafor, Hannu Rajaniemi, Ekaterina Sedia, Andrzej Sapkowski and many others

      "Not surprisingly, then, The Apex Book of World SF 2 is an easy recommendation for any SF fan. It’s a good read, and, for those of us who need encouragement to experience fiction from beyond our usual realm of experience, it’s an opportunity to be exposed to new voices and worlds that we might not otherwise see. Lavie Tidhar’s project is very important to the future of not only international authors, but the entire SF community."

      —Strange Horizons, Ben Godby

      ISBN: 978-1-937009-05-2

      Available at ApexBookCompany.com or most major book vendors

      But It Now: http://bit.ly/Nt5lq4

      Waiting for Beauty

      Marie Brennan

      He wakes before dawn to prepare her breakfast. The spoons and pot-handles are clumsy in his curving claws, but the servants all left long ago, and so he has learned to make do. The breakfast is not what he would wish it to be; getting supplies is difficult these days. He found two eggs in a lark’s nest yesterday, though, which he cracks with painstaking care, scrambling them because anything else requires more dexterity than he possesses. There is meat, as always, and bread he stole for her.

      The claws of his feet click against the stone as he hurries from the kitchens, tray balanced in his enormous hands. The

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