The Book of Apex: Volume 3 of Apex Magazine

Edited by Catherynne M. Valente. Cover art by Justin Stewart.

These thirty-one stories encompass all fifteen issues of Apex Magazine edited by the Hugo Award-nominated editor and author Catherynne M. Valente.

You'll encounter strange, compelling magics interwoven within a haunted book made of vegetation, cities that come to life and go to war, and surreal suburban nightmares played out through the eyes of children.

The Book of Apex: Volume 3 of Apex Magazine contains work by Seanan McGuire, Saladin Ahmed, Theodora Goss, Forrest Aguirre, Cat Rambo, Ian Tregillis, Annalee Newitz, Peter M. Ball, and many other masters of the short form.

Contents:

• "To the Mistress of the Labyrinth Give Honey" by Heather McDougal
• "I Am Thinking of You in the Spaces Between" by Shira Lipkin
• "Frank" by Betsy Phillips
• "Namasté Prime" by Grá Linnaea
• "The Whispered Thing" by Zach Lynott
• "The Tiger Hunt" by Rabbit Seagraves
• "The Neighborly Thing to Do" by T.J. Weyler
• "The Widow and the Xir" by Indrapramit Das
• "Your Cities" by Anaea Lay
• "The Doves of Hartleigh Garden" by Kathryn Weaver
• "Recipe Collecting in the Asteroid Belt" by Jeremy R. Butler
• "Twilight of the Eco-Terrorist" by Annalee Newitz
• "Biba Jibun" by Eugie Foster
• "The Eater" by Michael J. Deluca
• "The Dust and the Red" by Darin Bradley
• "The Speaking Bone" by Kat Howard
• "Close Your Eyes" by Cat Rambo
• "Langknech and Tzi-Tzi in the Land of the Mad" by Forrest Aguirre
• "The Itaewon Eschatology" by Douglas F. Warrick
• "The Tolling of Pavlov’s Bells" by Seanan McGuire
• "Pale, and from a Sea-Wave Rising" by C.S.E. Cooney
• "Radishes" by Nick Wolven
• "The Faithful Soldier, Prompted" by Saladin Ahmed
• "50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire" by Pamela Taylor
• "The Green Book" by Amal El-Mohtar
• "Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)" by Ian Tregillis
• "The Girl Who Had Six Fingers" by Brenda Stokes Barron
• "L’esprit de L’escalier" by Peter M. Ball
• "Portage" by An Owomoyela
• "FOUR IS ME! WITH SQUEEEEEE! (AND LOLER)" by Nick Mamatas
• "Fair Ladies" by Theodora Goss