Apex Magazine: Issue 42
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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 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine!
Issue 42 features the following content.
EDITORIAL
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief
Lynne M. Thomas
FICTION
Splinter
Shira Lipkin
Erzulie Dantor
Tim Susman
Sprig
Alex Bledsoe
The Glutton: A Goxhat Accounting Chant
Eleanor Arnason
NONFICTION
An Interview with Alex Bledsoe
Maggie Slater
Behind the Convention Curtain: Programming
Steven H Silver
The 21st Century SF/F Professional at Conventions
Lynne M. Thomas
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Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas
APEX MAGAZINE
ISSUE 42, NOVEMBER 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
The 21st Century SF/F Professional at Conventions
Copyright © 2012 by Lynne M. Thomas
Erzulie Dantor
Copyright © 2012 by Tim Susman
Splinter
Copyright © 2012 by Shira Lipkin
The Glutton: A Goxhat Accounting Chant
Copyright © 2001 by Eleanor Arnason (Originally appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated, April 2001)
Sprig
Copyright © 2012 by Alex Bledsoe
Behind the Convention Curtain: Programming
Copyright © 2012 by Steven H Silver
An Interview with Alex Bledsoe
Copyright © 2012 by Maggie Slater
Publisher—Jason Sizemore
Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas
Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth
Managing Editor—Michael D. Thomas
Slush Editors—Sigrid Ellis, Deanna Knippling, Kelly Lagor, Eileen Maksym, Michael Matheson, Travis Knight, Olga Zelanova, Maggie Slater, Andy Arnold, 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 on the first Tuesday of the month.
Cover art copyright Nicoletta Ceccoli. Visit her website at http://www.nicolettaceccoli.com to see more of her amazing artwork.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief
Lynne M. Thomas
Fiction
Splinter
Shira Lipkin
Erzulie Dantor
Tim Susman
Sprig
Alex Bledsoe
The Glutton: A Goxhat Accounting Chant
Eleanor Arnason
Nonfiction
An Interview with Alex Bledsoe
Maggie Slater
Behind the Convention Curtain: Programming
Steven H Silver
The 21st Century SF/F Professional at Conventions
Lynne M. Thomas
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief
This issue features two contemporary flash fiction pieces. The first is by Alex Bledsoe, the author of one of my favorite novels from last year, The Hum and the Shiver, and its forthcoming follow up, Wisp of a Thing. Both spin tales of the Tufa, a group of people from the mountains of East Tennessee with a magical affinity for music. Bledsoe’s Sprig
brings the Tufa to the Renaissance Faire. Our second flash fiction piece, Splinter
by Shira Lipkin, examines the intersection of shattered realities and friendships. Tim Susman’s Erzulie Dantor
rounds out this month’s new fiction, with an epic look at the aftermath of a major earthquake. Our classic revisited is Eleanor Arnason’s The Glutton: A GoxHat Accounting Chant,
which examines the fall of an alien society looking through a historical lens.
We’re doing something a little different with the nonfiction this month. In addition to Maggie Slater’s interview with Alex Bledsoe, there are two essays, each exploring a different side of the SF/F convention experience: one from the perspective of a programming chair, by Steven H Silver, and one from the perspective of an SF/F professional (yours truly).
I’ve noticed a bit of tension within our SF/F community lately, between the fans (particularly those who volunteer to run conventions), and the SF/F professionals who also form an integral part of the convention experience. Steven and I offer glimpses of both perspectives so we can see how the other side lives,
in the hopes of making sure that everyone who attends conventions has a wonderful time.
Our gorgeous cover art is by Nicoletta Ceccoli.
I hope that you enjoy this issue of Apex Magazine.
Lynne M. Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
Dark Faith: Invocations
Edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon
Featuring
Max Allan Collins, Mike Resnick, Jay Lake, Nisi Shawl, Laird Barron, Tom Piccirilli, Jennifer Pelland, and more!
Religion, science, magic, love, family—everyone believes in something, and that faith pulls us through the darkness and the light. The second coming of Dark Faith cries from the depths with 26 stories of sacrifice and redemption.
"…rises to the expectations set by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon’s first (Dark Faith) anthology, if not surpassing them."
—Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews
ISBN: 978-1-937009-07-6
Available at ApexBookCompany.com or most major book vendors
Splinter
Shira Lipkin
When I was twenty years old, my best friends and I stepped off the edge of the world.
Michael died yesterday.
These two things have everything and nothing to do with each other.
People aren’t made to do what we did.
Or maybe they are, and they just aren’t made to come back.
1. Jay
Jay was the hippie, floppy surfer-bangs, more pot than speed, more folk than punk, and the first time I met him, he seized my