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ABYSS & APEX

Issue 24: 4th Quarter 2007

"Whoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too, for if you stare long enough into the Abyss, the Abyss stares also into you."
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, chapter 4, no. 146

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    Guest Editorial by Frank Wu:

    Frank Wu chose to use Abyss&Apex as the place to make an important announcement. We are honored to have his story here, and even more pleased that he wanted to use us as a springboard to inform you all. Fire away, Frank!
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  • Short Fiction

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    Metamorphoses In Amber
    by Tony Pi
          My regenerating flesh forced out fragments of lead, repairing my lung while burst blood vessels and torn muscles stitched back together.
          But one piece of amber wasn't enough.

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    Looking Out For Number One
    by Patrick Hudson
          The machine was silent for moment. Everyone else he knew was registered and logged by a simple biometric scan before they even stepped into the booth, but despite all the times he had used the teleport, it never picked up his log-in and password. If it couldn't keep track of that basic information, how the hell was he supposed to trust it not to lose him somewhere in the quantum flux?

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    Love And Death In The Time of Monsters
    by Frank Wu
          They try everything. Cellular toxins. DNA replication inhibitors. Anti-sense nucleic acids. Artillery. Great bolts of lightning. Nothing stops him, it only makes the monster angrier.

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    Under The Blue Curve
    by Mark A. Rayner
          He was a fish, cursed with the vague awareness that there was an atmosphere filled with interesting creatures and stories up there beyond the blue curve of his world.

    Flash Fiction

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    Wikihistory
    by Desmond Warzel
          At 18:06:59, BigChill wrote:
          Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.

    Poetry

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    Sailors Take Warning
    by Robin M. Mayhall

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    I Wish For Wings
    by Gwen Campbell *

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    Lament For Titan
    by Robin M. Mayhall

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    Separate Destinations cover Our chapbook is still on sale. Please click on the cover image at right to learn more.

    Awards

    * New Spectacles by Will McIntosh
    All The Wonder in The World by Lavie Tidhar
    Interfaith by Lisa Mantchev
    In the Season of Blue Storms by Jude-Marie Green
    Selected as Honorable Mentions in the 2006 edition of Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois.

    All The Wonder in The World by Lavie Tidhar
    Godspeed, Inc. by Vincent Miskell
    In the Season of Blue Storms by Jude-Marie Green
    Selected as notable stories of 2006 by Story South.

    Prayer Causes Stars by Greg Beatty, published in Issue 15, has garnered a third place award from the Dwarf Stars poetry anthology.

    Museum Beetles by Simon Kewin
    Honorable Mentions: 2005 in The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Ed, edited by Gardner Dozois

    No Ruined Lunar City by Greg Beatty - 2005 Rhysling Award winning poem

    Live From The Volgograd Blackout! by Barth Anderson
    Honorable Mentions: 2004 in The Year's Best Science Fiction 22nd Ed, edited by Gardner Dozois

    Those Boiled Bones by Jay Lake
    Honorable Mentions: 2004 in The Year's Best Science Fiction 22nd Ed, edited by Gardner Dozois

    Making A Sparrow by Tracina Jackson-Adams –
        Honor Roll in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens,
           edited by Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
        Honorable Mention list in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror,
           edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant.

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