Apex Magazine Issue 84

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. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore Fiction 1957 — Stephen Cox Cottage Country — David K. Yeh The Behemoth Beaches — Maggie Slater The Drowned Celestial — Lavie Tidhara Freeze/Thaw (Novel Excerpt) — Chris Buchozl Nonfiction Interview with Author Stephen Cox — Andrea Johnson Interview with Robert Carter, Cover Artist — Russell Dickerson Gender Equality in Apex Magazine — Lesley Conner Poetry Jubilee — F.J. Bergmann Before the Empire Goes Inter-Galactic — Ken Poyner Mammon's Cave — Janna Layton The Perfect Planet — Christina Sng