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    Apex Magazine: Issue 47
    Apex Magazine: Issue 47
    Apex Magazine: Issue 47
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 47

    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 & 2013 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine!

    Issue 47 features the following content:

    Table of Contents
    Fiction
    The Lure of Devouring Light — Michael Griffin
    Dawn and the Maiden — Sofia Samatar
    Build-A-Dolly — Ken Liu
    Hurt Me — Daniel Abraham

    Poetry
    Ψάπφοι Σελάννα — Sonya Taaffe

    Nonfiction
    Blood on Vellum — Lynne M. Thomas
    Words from the Publisher — Jason Sizemore
    Science Fiction Poetry: Worlds of Potential — Amal El-Mohtar
    Interview with Daniel Abraham — Maggie Slater

    Cover art by Naoto Hattori

    Edited by multi-Hugo Award-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateJun 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301960422
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      Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas

      APEX MAGAZINE

      ISSUE 47, April 2013

      EDITED BY LYNNE M. THOMAS

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyrights and Acknowledgments

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief Copyright © 2013 by Lynne M. Thomas

      Dawn and the Maiden Copyright © 2013 by Sofia Samatar

      Build–A–Dolly Copyright © 2013 by Ken Liu

      The Lure of Devouring Light Copyright © 2013 by Michael Griffin

      Ψάπφοι Σελάννα Copyright © 2013 by Sonya Taaffe

      Hurt Me Copyright © 2010 by Daniel Abraham (Originally published in Songs of Love and Death, ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Gallery Books, 2010)

      Interview with Daniel Abraham Copyright © 2013 by Maggie Slater

      Science Fiction Poetry: Worlds of Potential Copyright © 2013 by Amal El–Mohtar

      Words from the Publisher Copyright © 2013 by Jason Sizemore

      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, Michael Matheson, Maggie Slater, 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 the first Tuesday of the month. Single issues are available for $2.99. Subscriptions are available for twelve months and cost $19.95.

      About Our Cover Artist

      Our cover artist Naoto Hattori was born in 1975 in Yokohama, Japan. Naoto studied Graphic Design in Tokyo before moving to New York to study in the School of Visual Arts where he received a BFA in Illustration in 2000. He has been the recipient of awards from The Society of Illustrators and the New York Director’s Club.

      Visit http://www.wwwcomcom.com/ to view more work from this amazing artist.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Editorial

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

      Lynne M.Thomas

      Fiction

      Dawn and the Maiden

      Sofia Samatar

      Build–A–Dolly

      Ken Liu

      The Lure of Devouring Light

      Michael Griffin

      Ψάπφοι Σελάννα

      Sonya Taaffe

      Hurt Me

      Daniel Abraham

      Nonfiction

      Interview with Daniel Abraham

      Maggie Slater

      Science Fiction Poetry: Worlds of Potential

      Amal El–Mohtar

      Words from the Publisher

      Jason Sizemore

      What Makes You Die

      Tom Piccirilli

      The first act of his latest screenplay is their ticket back to the red carpets. If only Tommy could remember writing it. Trying to recapture the hallucinations that crafted his masterpiece, he chases his kidnapped childhood love, a witch from the magic shop downstairs, and the Komodo dragon he tried to cut out of his gut one Christmas Eve. The path to professional redemption may be more dangerous than the fall.

      …This is what makes you die.

      ISBN: 978–1–937009–12–0

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

      Welcome to issue 47 of Apex Magazine.

      We have some marvelous works for you this month. Sofia Samatar’s Dawn and the Maiden entwines love, loss, and belief. Ken Liu’s Build–a–Dolly explores the moment when we stop taking care of our playthings. Michael Griffin’s The Lure of Devouring Light shows us the sinister side of powerful music. Finally, the inimitable Sonya Taafe also shares a gorgeous mythological poem, Ψάπφοι Σελάννα (The Moon to Sappho), with us.

      Our classic revisited this month comes from Daniel Abraham, originally writing as MLH Hanover. It’s a dark tale of homeownership called Hurt Me.

      In nonfiction, Maggie Slater interviews Daniel about the writing of this story, pseudonyms, and his writing process, while Amal El–Mohtar provides a scathing refutation of the notion that SF/F poetry cannot be sublime.

      Our cover art comes once again from the remarkable Naoto Hattori.

      As most of you know, Apex Magazine was once again nominated for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award. We are deeply honored, especially given our stellar fellow nominees. This is especially gratifying since this nomination is for my first full year as Editor–in–Chief, and Michael Damian Thomas’s first year as Managing Editor. Thank you to everybody who nominated us. This magazine wouldn’t be possible without our amazing team of submissions editors, designers, and copy editors, and I extend my thanks to them as well, along with our phenomenal publisher and fellow editor, Jason Sizemore, for his support and trust.

      You can find more details about the Hugo Awards at the LoneStarCon website: http://www.lonestarcon3.org/hugo–awards/.

      I hope that you enjoy this issue of Apex Magazine.

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Editor–in–Chief

      Dawn and the Maiden

      Sofia Samatar

      My love is a river. My love is a brink. My love is the brink of an underground river. My love’s arms ripple like rivers in the moonlight when he unlocks the garden gate. He lifts the great beam and sets it in place. He bows to the Lady’s guests. These are three men, filthy with travel. Each has only one eye.

      My love has eyes of brown agate, eyes that flicker like hanging crystal. In the dark they are black, but their brownness glints when he stands beneath the lantern in the garden. My love waits for me beneath the lantern. He waits while I serve wine to the Lady’s guests. On my way to join him, I leave an offering of bracelets at the entrance to the Lady’s corridor.

      I pass through the garden. The leaves caress me. They tug at my skirts, my plaits. My fingers tug, too. They tug the plaits apart, letting my hair spring free.

      My love waits for me beneath the lantern in the garden. He is gilded like a figure on a shield. When he steps forward to meet me, his eyes fill with darkness like a crystal glass with wine.

      My love. His cheek just shadowed with a beard, like the blush upon a plum.

      Did you leave something for her?

      Bracelets.

      Good, he says. He left her his harp and some quill pens tied up with scarlet thread.

      I saw them, I tell him. I saw the harp and quills there, along with all the other offerings. Candles, cherries, live ducks whiter than cake flour, their beaks wired shut. Although it was my love who insisted we give our most precious things to the Lady, I did

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