Issue 41 — October 2012

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 the first Tuesday of every month.

Fiction
“Always the Same. Till it is Not.” by Cecil Castellucci
“Weaving Dreams” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“Simon’s Replica” by Dean Francis Alfar

Poetry
“Casanova Clay” by Liz Argall
“Thirteen” by Rachel Swirsky
“The Crows and the Witches and the Window” by Rachel Swirsky

Nonfiction
“Editorial: Blood on Vellum (Issue 41)” by Lynne M. Thomas
“An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal” by Maggie Slater
“Apex Magazine Goes to the Hugos” by Lynne M. Thomas

A 2012 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine!

About the Cover Artist:
Cover art  “(Inle) Explaining Death to a Rabbit” by Carrie Ann Baade

Carrie Ann Baade’s autobiographical oil paintings are allegorical narratives inspired by spirit, literature, and art history. These parables combine fragments of Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings, resulting in surreal landscapes inhabited by exotic flora, fauna, and figures.

She has been awarded the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist, and nominated for the prestigious United States Artist Fellowship. Baade’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville Florida, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia, Billy Shire Fine Arts in Los Angeles, and the Ningbo Art Museum in China.

Carrie Ann Baade was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1974. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her Masters from University of Delaware. She currently lives and works in Tallahassee where she is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University.

View more of her art at: http://www.carrieannbaade.com.