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Hadley Rille Books, Eric T. Reynolds, Publisher, and Abyss&Apex, Wendy S. Delmater, Editor-in-Chief, present:
The Best of Abyss & Apex Volume 1
Available NOW from Amazon.
From Newpages.com
Abyss & Apex is a journal that utilizes what may seem like unconventional
methods to obtain similar ends as other literary journals; it uses the guise
of the alien world and science fiction constructs to convey messages about the
human condition in all its various forms. This makes it seem as if it is
taking us on a journey to foreign territory. While these characters and
situations are unusual with a dramatic nod to suspense thrillers and sci-fi
classic movies and novels, its main objective is to transport its readers to
the valleys and ravines of thought, even sometimes to the edge. And we
continue to read because we are fascinated and desire to continue learning.
FROM Richard A. Lovett:
Welcome to the world of Abyss & Apex: a diverse array of offerings with one thing in common: at each one's heart lies not only a nifty idea (sometimes very nifty) but a strong character. Good people, bad people, non-people - whatever the protagonists might be, if you like your science fiction and fantasy flavored strongly with character, this book is for you.
- Richard A. Lovett, J.D., Ph.D.
FROM Booklist:
The Best of Abyss & Apex, v.1. Ed. by Wendy S. Delmater. 2009. 296p. Hadley Rille, paper, $15.95 (9780981924304).
There's a little of everything in this prose and verse collection, from a story in which explorers discover intelligent life that turns out to be the weather to a time-travel wiki in which new participants neglect to pay attention to one key detail, over and over again. And although big-name contributors are few (do relative newcomers Jay Lake and Tim Pratt count as such yet?), the quality of the contents is consistently extraordinary. They're the likes of Lisa Mantchev's "Interfaith," a touching story about a child whose parents belong to two rather different cultures and the problems of a goddess raising a god's daughter; Jason L. Corner's "The Knife," in which humans must learn to live with an alien culture and some difficult rites of passage; and Justin Stanchfield's "God's Guitar," in which an angel appears with a message about a particular pawnshop item. Even the shortest pieces—and some of those are haiku—excellently exemplify the sense of wonder that's key to speculative fiction. —Regina Schroeder
Table of Contents:
The Night the Stars Sang Out My Name by Ken Scholes
Interfaith by Lisa Mantchev
Lament for Titan by Robin M. Mayhall
Godspeed, Inc. by Vincent Miskell
Night is My House by Christopher Vera
Metamorphoses in Amber by Tony Pi
City of Beautiful Nonsense by Justin Howe
New Spectacles by Will McIntosh
The Devil You Know by Heidi Kneale
Dear Yourself by Yoon Ha Lee
Nomad by Karl Bunker
Stories of the Alien Invasion by Manek Mistry
A Clockwork Break by Shawn Scarber
The Knife by Jason L. Corner
Hour By Hour by Lindsay Duncan
The Watchers by Patricia Kelly
In The Season Of Blue Storms by Jude-Marie Green
A Season With The Geese by Rachel Swirsky
Goddess by Jon Hansen
Quantum Semantics by Norman Ball
When Maxwell’s Demon Met Schrödinger’s Cat by Jack Hillman
Fading Away by Jay Lake
The Man Behind the Curtain by Joseph Paul Haines
God’s Guitar by Justin Stanchfield
Twelve Dancing Daughters by Pam McNew
Unicorn’s Rest by Jill Knowles
The First Stranger by Kristine Ong Muslim
The Sea a Deeper Black by Tim Pratt
Museum Beetles by Simon Kewin
Four-Dimensional Chess by Robert Saunders
Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel
Featuring gorgeous cover art from Mondolithic Studios.
FROM The Introduction:
Writers are artists who paint a picture on your mind and heart. Some of
them burn their images deep inside, sculpting who you are. Others play with
light shows and illuminate the corners of your soul. May you, the reader,
find the music of words, the colors of foreign worlds and the thrill of
adventure in these pages.
Science fiction and fantasy have something in common at their core: a
sense of wonder. In these tales you will be touched by how human beings
might react to powers and technologies, principalities and powers,
circumstances and fate.
It’s all here. Some writing is indistinguishable from magic.
Wendy S. Delmater
Kings Park, New York
Buy your copy today!
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