Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.Issue 125 contains the following:EDITORIALEditorial by Jason SizemoreWords from the Honorary Special Editor by Jeffery ReynoldsORIGINAL FICTIONCOTTONMOUTH by Joelle WellingtonNe...

“Full of heart and blood, this impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction.” —Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times“This is weird girl fiction at its finest.” —Lucy Rose“Compassionate, gross, deeply compelling. A must-read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Striking, visceral, and brutally honest, Rose Keating’s Od...

In this nationally bestselling “delightful compendium of everything you ever wanted to know about” (The Washington Post) Joni Mitchell, the eternal singer-songwriter is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, lyrics by Henry Alford, “the most graceful of humorists” (Vanity Fair) and a writer for The New Yorker.Joni Mitchell’s life, psyche, and evolving legacy are explored here in “the great...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF O BROTHERIn a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth – no, sixth? – child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready to drive his wife and baby home. Jada is a hustling, small-time criminal who is already planning how to separate Dan from...

Longlisted for The Story Prize“Powerfully unique and thoughtfully written, with the ability to carry you to places you’ve yet to imagine and return you to places you’ve tried to escape.”—Chicago Review of Books“Every story in Portalmania is distinctive, vital, and sophisticated; the whole is an almost perfectly constructed debut collection that brings into sharp focus an impressively cohesive project.”—Locus,

When Everly’s husband and young daughter die in a car crash. A lawyer appears on her doorstep and tells her her husband was not who he said he was and she is a very rich widow. She retreats to a lonely house in the countryside to recover. But there’s a well in the cellar, a spectacularly cold room, and one night, Everly wakes up with a foot hanging over the emptiness of the well and the echo of her daughter’s voice in her ears…

Read by the author, this bold, provocative collection of essays asks one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modeling ...

"Seductively weird ... populated by characters that live on in the mind long after the book's been put back on the shelf" - Iain Banks"a true, sophisticated modern classic" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 starsEarth has been ravaged by a series of natural disasters. Retroviruses run rampant throughout its population. Economic failure has destabilised the world.Then the aliens arrive.With no understanding of th...

'A spectacular story of shape-shifting, love and faith . . . It enthralled me'JESSIE BURTON, multi-million bestselling author of The Miniaturist'Astonishing . . . a scorching vision of a book'CHARLOTTE WOOD, Booker-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional'Incredible'EVIE WYLD, author of The Echoes'Bold and unexpected, Rapture buzzes with life and energy . ....

‘Addictive writing wrapped up in a compelling page turner that makes you deeply think and feel’ YOMI ADEGOKE'An incisive new voice in fiction' COCO MELLORSWe give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they exploit it?Imagine you’ve just spent the night with the most famous man on the planet. Except you don’t quite remember it. That is what happens to Rose, a twenty-some...

'An oracle'DOLLY ALDERTON'Articulate[s] a universal, feminine wisdom with such ferocity it feels like she's slapping the reader around the face'OBSERVER'Equal parts self-lacerating, tender and witty'GLAMOUR'Furious, sharp, funny, honest'iPAPEROn the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List

‘Lush and atmospheric, full of magic and yearning’ – Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas SixA Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death duology.The colour of magic was gold . . .Twe...