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.
Contents of this issue: ...That Has Such People in It • Jennifer Pelland • ss She Called Me Sweetie • Glenn Lewis Gillette • ss The Frozen Sky • Jeff Carlson • na Interview with J.M. McDermott • Jason B. Sizemore • iv Editorial Dispositions • Jason B. Sizemore • ed
Only two stories in this first premiere issue of this electronic version of the former hardcopy print 'zine of the same name.
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"She called me Sweetie" by Glen Lewis Gillette is reminiscent of both H.G. Wells's "The Island of Doctor Moreau"coupled with Daniel Keyes's "Flowers For Algernon" (first serialized and published in the "Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction," only to be reprinted again and re-released as a mass market paperback circa 1965; still later, a movie was made from Keyes's novel.)
"She Called Me Sweetie," involves a woman cloning her husband, with the later progenitors as offspring being raised and used for sex to continue the family line.
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"...And Has Such People In It" by Jennifer Pelland is reminiscent of both the novel–length dystopian treatment found with Philip K. Dick's THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH, coupled with another novel-length extravaganza, that being Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD.
Earth is invaded by aliens, with the promised of a 'new world order' consisting of NO. disease, NO poverty, NO unemployment NO hunger; in short, NO ANYTHING. It's the perfect world, with nothing whatever to do, until the protagonist and first-person narrator of this story. needs to 'get with it' after spending her entire conflicting post alien invasion experience underground.