Apex Magazine and Book Company

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Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· 21d

"I felt a strong need . . . to make two very different textures and shapes intertwine and resemble each other—find common ground between opposites." 🌀🎨🪢 New today by Bradley Powers: "Interview with Artist @valentinapaz.com" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"Interview with Artist Valentina Paz" By Bradley Powers. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· 28d

"Just before Ala ascended into the heavens, she crafted a he-goat from infinity and gave it breath. It had the blackest fur and gold irises that glowed." 🐐🥭🪙 New fiction today by @somtoihezue.bsky.social: "Disobedience and Goats" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"Disobedience and Goats" By Somto Ihezue. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jul 9

There's only 6 DAYS LEFT to enter our PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION giveaway! ⏰⏰⏰ Like, repost, and comment — bonus points for tagging the biggest scifi fans in your life! — for a chance to win one of 10 signed collector's edition ARCS of Apex's newest release by @jasonsanford.bsky.social 🌟📚🗳️

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jul 7

"The night after my Mom’s funeral, you showed up dressed as a pot of hot soup on the stove. . ." 🍲👥🐚 New fiction today by Jana Bianchi: "Of Brackens and Cowries" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"Of Brackens and Cowries" By Jana Bianchi. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jul 1

ICYMI 🌟 Our stunning new edition of @jasonsanford.bsky.social's award-nominated sci-fantasy dystopia PLAGUE BIRDS is OUT NOW! Featuring an updated forward, new cover art by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social, and additional short story "Little Fathers of Darkness" ❤️‍🔥💾 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

OUT NOW
Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition

"In a world of gene-modded humans constantly watched over by benevolent AIs, everyone hates and fears the plague birds: the powerful merging of humans and artificial intelligences who serve as judges and executioners after the collapse of civilization. But to save her father and home village, Crista becomes the very creature she fears the most. And her first task as a plague bird is hunting down an ancient group of murderers wielding magic-like powers.

As Crista and her AI symbiote travel farther from home than she ever imagined, they are plunged into a strange world where she judges wrongdoers, befriends other outcasts, and uncovers a personal conspiracy that threatens the lives of millions.

Plague Birds is a genre-bending mix of science fiction and dark fantasy, and the epic story of a young woman who becomes one of the future's most hated creatures, with a killer AI bonded to her very blood."

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jul 1

STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

"Apex Magazine Submissions OPEN!

We are Seeking:
short sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fiction
short genre-related nonfiction
Up to 9k words

Submissions Close August 1st
https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/"

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 29

Only ONE DAY LEFT to preorder your copy of PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION! 🚨🚨🚨 Join Plague Bird Crista and her AI symbiote in a brand new edition of @jasonsanford.bsky.social's iconic genre-bending dystopia for 30% off, available only until June 30th! ⬇️ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Picture of PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION cover on a black starry background with abstract metallic red shapes. Text reads: "TOMORROW. Cover Art by Marcela Bolivar. Cover Design by Mikio Murakami. www.apexbookcompany.com"

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 25

Grandma's old film camera got left in the sun 📸🎞️🌈 @ivygrimes.bsky.social's THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR is a wonderfully Weird Girl folk horror of eerie grandmas, liminal cellars, and a solar flare ruining the day ☀️ your new fave summer read is available now! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

A photo of a paperback copy of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR lying in a bed of clover. The image is covered in yellow and orange blotches, indicating film degradation.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 24

There's just 6 DAYS LEFT to preorder your copy of PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION for 30% off! ⏰⏰⏰ Return to Jason Sanford's Nebula-nominated fantastical dystopia, updated with new Afterward, cover art, and short story "Little Fathers of Darkness" ✒️🌟 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Cover of PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION. A woman with glowing red hair and eyes looks off into the distance as a sci-fi spaceship takes off behind her.
Cover Art: Marcela Bolivar
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami

A first edition of PLAGUE BIRDS signed by Jason Sanford held up against a blue wall, surrounded by abstract red metallic shapes. Text reads: "Free Signed Bookplate with every paperback preorder! While Supplies Last. www.apexbookcompany.com."

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 23

"I fell asleep during the flight and dreamt of cutting off my right hand. Inside was a tiny city. He was in there, replicated as a colony." ✈️🪲🌉 New fiction today by Christian Ramirez Ramos: "Seventeen Beats, the Chirping Stopped" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"Seventeen Beats, the Chirping Stopped" By Christian Ramirez Ramos. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 22

We celebrated TWO book birthdays last weekend — three years of DANGED BLACK THING by @genni.bsky.social, and the TEN YEAR anniversary of THE KRAKEN SEA by @ecatherine.com! 🎂🎉 Check them both out below! ⬇️ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/dan... www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 17

Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...

Violet Lichen Books OPEN TO QUERIES. We are seeking: speculative ecofiction, folk horror, weird and New Weird, literary scifi. 30-45k words. Closes June 30th, 2026.

Read the full guidelines: www.violetlichen.com/submissions
Query Portal: www.querytracker.net/query/violetlichen

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 16

"My writing process always tends to be chaotic and messy, but this story was particularly so." 🖊️💬 New today by @marissavu.bsky.social: "Interview with Author @debbieurbanski.bsky.social" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"Interview with Author Debbie Urbanski" by Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 15

There's just 15 DAYS LEFT to preorder your copy of PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION! 🚨⏰ Don't forget to preorder your special edition paperback before the 30th and receive a free bookplate signed by @jasonsanford.bsky.social while supplies last! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Updated cover of PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 10

“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.” 🌲🪶 Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen Books are thrilled to reveal the cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social, with spectacular cover art and design by Misha Chernov 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Coming February 2027!

The cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD: A filigreed golden frame surrounds a portrait of a young girl covered in roots. An orange moth sits on her cheek, and one eye has been replaced with a long dark tunnel, through which the glowing white silhouette of her sister is visible.

For Fans of:

Uprooted - Naomi Novik
The Overstory - Richard Powers
The River has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar
The Isle in the Silver Sea - Tasha Suri
Hemlock and Silver - T. Kingfisher

“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.”

Two Belarusian sisters live in the shadow of the Białowieża Forest, the last of Europe’s great primeval forests. Dasha is the shadow sister, unlovable to all but her shining sister Natalya, who she will follow anywhere.

So when Natalya is spirited away across the forest, Dasha does what she has always done: follows.

Inside the forest she meets the folk, refugees of the industrialized world whose tales were once told across Europe and beyond. Displaced and sequestered in the shrinking forest, their stories have been distorted and forgotten. And now, a strange force known as the Storyteller refuses to let Dasha go, stealing her inner voice and weaving her into the world’s tales. Dasha’s only hope of escape is to reclaim her lost voice and forge her own story.

Dasha hesitated. She stared into the huge raven’s black beady eye, a dark pool rimmed with grey pebbles, until she could name what she saw inside it.
“Wisdom and kindness,” she said aloud. “I almost didn’t know how to recognize it.”
She ran her hand along the glossy feathers of his neck, then swung one thin leg across his back. The moment he spread his great wings and lifted them into the air was the first time she was aware that, if she were ever to leave the woods again, she would be a girl with a story that could never be told.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 9

You never know what you'll discover in the forest...or what will discover you 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Experience a surreal new fairytale brimming with strange sisters, trickster spirits, and a primeval forest that never lets you go 🌀🌲 the full cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social drops tomorrow!

A swarm of moths cover a book lying on the forest floor. A single eye and the gold text "They Call the Place Wild - Rae Mariz" are visible through the gaps in the moths' wings.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 9

"My suicide looks comfortable and homely. It is wearing one of my father’s old flannels, buffalo plaid, buttoned to its chin. . . . Can one fall in love with one’s suicide?" 👔🪶 New fiction today by @debbieurbanski.bsky.social: "My Suicides" 🌅 Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"My Suicides" By Debbie Urbanski. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 5

🌱 6/6

The Piano Player Has Eight Arms
Íde Hennessy,
Reckoning

We Used to Wake to Song
Leah Ning
Apex Magazine

We Will Not Dream of Coral
Mário Coelho
Reckoning

When the Fox-Bells Ring
Ally Wilkes
The Earth Bleeds At Night, ed. Holley Cornetto, Eerie River Press

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 5

🌱 5/6

Antigone, But With Spiders
Syr Hayati Beker,
What a Fish Looks Like, Stelliform Pres

The Endstate of History
Bernie Jean Schiebeling
The Commuter, Electric Literature

The Iceberg
Michael Capobianc
Analog

The Oneiromantic Sheep
F.B. Hughes
Radon Journal

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 5

🌱 4/6

MALO MALO MALO MALO
Louis Inglis Hall
The Dark Magazine

Mothership Comes to the Heart of the Ocean
Gu Shi, TRANSLATED by Ken Liu
Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures, eds. Joey Eschrich & Ed Finn, MIT Press

The Order of Soil
Tara Labovich
Tractor Beam

Our Continuity, Each of Us Raindrops
Parker M. O’Neill
Imagine 2200, Grist Magazine

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 5

🌱 3/6

Herdhunters
MIKE ROBINSON
Zooscape Zine

Invasive Species
Mary Kuryla
Weird Horror Magazine

Kindling
Somto Ihezue
Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite,
eds. Jendia Gammon & Gareth L. Powell,
Star and Stabers Publishing

Lolos Last Run
E.M. Kerkman
Asimovs Science Fiction

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 5

🌱 2/6

Banded Iron
T.K. Rex
The Sunday Morning Transport

Butterfly Pavilion
G. Willow Wilson
Uncanny Magazine

Exhibition
Lu Xu
Saros Speculative Fiction

greasy luck
Samir Sirk Morató
Cosmic Horror Monthly

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 5

🌱 1/6

A Hole Cut in the Wall
of the World – 29
Rebecca Campbell
The Other Shore, Stelliform Press

Abatement
Max Wheeler
Split Lip Magazine

All That Means or Mourns
Ruthanna Emrys
Reactor

All the World is Fog
DaVaun Sanders
Uncanny Magazine

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 5

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

"Finalists Announced! The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, ECO25"

Cover of ECO25: a strange extraterrestrial plant against a black background. Cover Art by Cover Art by Marcela Bolívar, Cover Design by Mikio Murakami

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 4

"It always surprises people to see how twisted a girl can be, and they don’t always like it." 📚🔪🎶 New nonfiction today by @ivygrimes.bsky.social: "Weird Girl Fiction" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"Weird Girl Fiction" By Ivy Grimes. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 2

"I forced myself to smile back at her as she disassembled the body she wore. Showing her that it was okay the best that I could."💕🌌 New fiction today by @chriscampbell.bsky.social: "Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation" By Chris Campbell. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· Jun 1

Happy Pride from your friends at Apex and Violet Lichen! We're so lucky to share this solar system with all of you 🏳️‍⚧️🌟🏳️‍🌈 This June, we're shouting out some of our favorite queer sci fi/fantasy/horror books, and we invite you to do the same! What are some of your favorite queer speculative stories? ⬇️

White glowing text reading "Happy Pride Month! From Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen" against a background of deep space, surrounded by planets in the colors of various pride flags.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· May 26

"The first word I consumed from the tongues of your kind was ▿̷̛͇̣̆͊◆̶̛͂̔̎◂." 🗣️🍽️🪹 New fiction today by @indigorue.bsky.social: "In Your Diminishing Tongue" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"In Your Diminishing Tongue" By Indigo Rue. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· May 21

Become the main character of the natural history museum you were always meant to be 🎟🏛🦤 ECO24 is the perfect portable paperback for tossing into tote bags or perusing at museum cafés! And if you think 2024 is already ancient history, no problem — we have a BIG ECO25 announcement coming very soon! 👀

A copy of ECO24 lying on a pile of birdwatching supplies: notebooks, pencils, binoculars, field guides, and a camping backpack

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag· May 19

"I slipped the piece of reflective glass into my upper arm, right under the skin." 🪞🫗🩸 New fiction today by Beth Dawkins: "Glass" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...