The Book of Apex Vol 4 Author:Lynne M. Thomas (Editor) The Book of Apex Volume 4 collects the original fiction from Hugo-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas's first fifteen issues at the helm of Apex Magazine, which included two Hugo Award nominations for the magazine. — Thirty-three science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories grab readers by their emotional cores to star deep into the source o... more »f our humanity and inhumanity. Well-known authors like Ken Liu, Genevieve Valentine, Catherynne M. Valente, Lavie Tidhar, and Alethea Kontis, along with newer voices, sketch surreal pasts, presents, and futures full of characters with familiar and outsized desires and fears.
Contents:
The Bread We Eat in Dreams (2011) / shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
The Leavings of the Wolf (2011) / shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
The 24 Hour Brother (2011) / shortstory by Christopher Barzak
Faithful City (2011) / shortstory by Michael Pevzner
So Glad We Had This Time Together (2012) / shortstory by Cat Rambo
Sweetheart Showdown (2012) / shortstory by Sarah Dalton
Bear in Contradicting Landscape (2012) / shortstory by David J. Schwartz
My Body, Her Canvas (2012) / shortstory by A. C. Wise
A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell (2012) / shortstory by Richard Bowes
Copper, Iron, Blood and Love (2012) / shortstory by Mari Ness
The Second Card of the Major Arcana (2012) / shortstory by Thoraiya Dyer
Love is a Parasite Meme (2012) / shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
Decomposition (2012) / shortstory by Rachel Swirsky
Tomorrow's Dictator (2012) / shortstory by Rahul Kanakia
Winter Scheming (2012) / shortstory by Brit Mandelo
In the Dark (2012) / shortstory by Ian Nichols
The Silk Merchant (2012) / shortstory by Ken Liu
Ironheart (2012) / shortstory by Alec Austin
Coyote Gets His Own Back (2012) / shortstory by Sarah Monette
Waiting for Beauty (2012) / shortstory by Marie Brennan
Murdered Sleep (2012) / shortstory by Kat Howard
Armless Maidens of the American West (2012) / shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
Sexagesimal (2012) / shortstory by Katharine E. K. Duckett
During the Pause (2012) / shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
Weaving Dreams (2012) / shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal
Always the Same. Till it is Not (2012) / shortstory by Cecil Castellucci
Sprig (2012) / shortstory by Alex Bledsoe
Splinter (2012) / shortstory by Shira Lipkin
Erzulie Dantor (2012) / shortstory by Tim Susman
Labyrinth (2012) / shortstory by Mari Ness
Blood from Stone (2012) / shortstory by Alethea Kontis
Trixie and the Pandas of Dread (2013) / shortstory by Eugie Foster
The Performance Artist (2013) / shortstory by Lettie Prell