Webzine: Abyss & Apex
Bibliographic comments: Bi-monthly/quarterly US periodical publishing fantasy and science fiction. Issues have no cover art.
All issues are hosted at the Abyss & Apex website only. This page: #1–50 | #51–100
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Abyss & Apex, #9
Carol Burrell, ed.
May 2004
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Editorial 'The Weight of a Nebula' by Carol Burrell.
• 'All-Flash Fiction' issue.
Fiction: Kyri Freeman, Swansong // Jay Lake, Clown Eggs // Samantha Henderson, Paranoia // Wendy S.
Delmater, Heat Sink // Eugie Foster, Inside the Witch's Oven // Robert T. Jeschonek, Vincent's Secret Students //
Ryan Robert Mullen, Grey Head and Them Big Black Eyes
Poetry: Tim Myers, A Farmer Considers Geologic Time // Bruce Boston, When We Replicated Charles Dickens //
Tim Myers, Apollo 11
Editors (alphabetically listed): Elizabeth Bear | Carol Burrell | Wendy S. Delmater | Carmelo Rafala
Language: English
ISSN:
Active: 2004 – present
Issues: ongoing
Websites: Abyss & Apex | Facebook | Galactic Central | ISFDB | SFE4 | Wikipedia
Abyss & Apex, #10
Carol Burrell, ed.
July 2004
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'The More Things Change...' by Aleta Daknis.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed here.
Fiction: Mikal Trimm, It's All in the Knowing // Josh Rountree, For the Sake of Rock & Roll // Lavie Tidhar,
Post-Human Pat // Luc Reid, Catch
Poetry: Larry Hammer, Her First Affair // David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Wars Aren't Ended After All
Abyss & Apex, #14
Carol Burrell, ed.
April 2005
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'A Change Will Do You Good' by Aleta Daknis.
Fiction: Patrick Samphire, Next // Justin Stanchfield, The Station with No Name // Steve Vernon, Flensing
Detritus // Laura Cooper, Mother's Condition: A Caustic Experiment // M. K. Hobson, What They Wanted
Poetry: Yoon Ha Lee, Kingdom of Dust and Steel // Peter Roberts, in the // Eric Marin, a plan
Abyss & Apex, #18
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
April 2006
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'Not What It Seems' by Wendy S. Delmater.
Fiction: Lavie Tidhar, All the Wonder in the World // Jack Hillman, When Maxwell's Demon Met Schrödinger's Cat //
Rae Dawn Carson, Becoming // Jill Knowles, Unicorn's Rest // James S. Dorr, Nanoflakes // Ralph Sevush,
Emmett, Joey & the Beelz
Poetry: Larry Hammer, Beasts of Elfland // A. J. Luxton, Sound Years // S. C. Virtes, Kara's Jungle // Bruce
Boston, The Dimensional Rush of Relative Lives // Christopher Vera, The Devil Stands Near My Pulpit // Marge
Simon, At the Children's Pound // Rich Magahiz, Capella 5 Needs Your Children // assu, Untitled ("protons
evaporate...")
Abyss & Apex, #16
Carol Burrell, ed.
October 2005
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Essays 'Forces of Nature' by Aleta Daknis, 'Zeno's Duet – Introduction' by Wendy S. Delmater.
Fiction: Constance Cooper, The Dream of Rain // Daniel Braum, Sumo21 // Tony Pi, Zeno's Last Paradox // Igor
Teper, The Relativity Prison // Douglas W. Clark, American Gothic // Bruce Holland Rogers, The Difference
Between Fiction and Life
Poetry: Mikal Trimm, The Man Who Held Infinity // Mark Gilbert, Untitled ("Hubble telescope...") // Mike Allen, Black
Holes Hold Their Breath // Mark Gilbert, Family One // Jon Hansen, The Wizard Gets a Haircut // Constance
Cooper, Gingerbread // Jennifer Crow, Greening // Jennifer Crow, Sequences in the Evolution of Form // David C.
Kopaska-Merkel, Internal Waves // Yoon Ha Lee, Dear Yourself // Robin Pommier, Walking Through the Village at
Twilight
Abyss & Apex, #19
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
July 2006
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'What Is It You Really Want?' by Wendy S. Delmater.
Fiction: Vylar Kaftan, Nine Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-Four Days // Will McIntosh, New Spectacles // Aaron
Callow, Ageless // Lisa Mantchev, Interfaith // RJ Astruc, The Ghosts of Los Hellas // Jon Hansen, Goddess //
Mikal Trimm, Small Change
Poetry: Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Ice-Cream & Absent Lovers // Rio Le Moignan, Forest Fleets // K. J. Kirby, Albino
Dragons // Amal El-Mohtar, Golem's Song // Elizabeth Barrette, Berthold the Bastard // Amber Jillene Yoo, My
Grandmother's Things // Greg Beatty, Your Move, Musée
Abyss & Apex, #22
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
April 2007
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Transcription of the Panel at Lunacon 2007 by John Joseph Adams, Douglas Cohen, Wendy S. Delmater and Hildy
Silverman. Poetry editorial by Trent Walters.
Fiction: M. Keaton, Pinny // Lindsey Duncan, Hour by Hour // Aliette de Bodard, Weepers and Ragers // Andrew
Zimmerman Jones, Diminished Capacity // Wade Ogletree, And Saturn Below // Richard A. Lovett, The Road to
Heather Cove // Heidi Wessman Kneale, The Devil You Know
Poetry: Alveraz Ricardez, Dreams of Sinaloa // Kyle Hemmings, The Japanese Businessman // Elizabeth Barrette,
An Alien Ate My SF Poem // Kaori Praschak, Partial–birth Revolution // John Fyffe, Vault // Marie Vibbert,
Pancho's Email // Pam McNew, Twelve Dancing Daughters // William Trowbridge, Alone No More
Abyss & Apex, #23
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
July 2007
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Editorial essays 'Fear and Shadows: The Line Between Horror and Dark Fantasy' by Wendy S. Delmater, 'Start
Here' by Trent Walters.
Fiction: Shane Nelson, Being Blue // David Sakmyster, Turning Time // J. D. Paradise, Freeing Teresa
Poetry: Rachel Swirsky, A Season with the Geese // Kristine Ong Muslim, The First Stranger // Janet Parkinson,
What Happened // Norman Ball, Quantum Semantics // Duane Locke, E–mail to Damniso Lopez 70 // Marcie
Tentchoff, Ash // Stefanie Maclin, Respect // Darin Bradley, Hieratics
Abyss & Apex, #27
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
July 2008
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Essays 'Dear Cthulhu' by Patrick Thomas.
Fiction: Joanne Steinwachs, The Number of Angels in Hell // Marissa K. Lingen, Väinämöinen and the Singing Fish
// Nye Joell Hardy, Praxitales // Alexandra MacKenzie, Walking Across the Bomb // Camille Alexa, The Green
Infinity // Ken Scholes, The Night the Stars Sang Out My Name
Poetry: Rose Lemberg, Odysseus on the war train // Tracie McBride, Side Show Sally // Elizabeth Penrose, Hives
// J. M. McDermott, 3 Poems Called Cosmic // Suzanne Sykora, Think // Kristine Ong Muslim, Pavlov's Best
Friend // Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Shears // Francis W. Alexander, Untitled ("skin bracelet...") // Francis W.
Alexander, Untitled ("observing an arm of...") // Kendall Evans, Lions & Tigers & Bears
Abyss & Apex, #30
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
April 2009
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'Fix, Do Not Eliminate, the Semiprozine Hugo' by Wendy S. Delmater.
Fiction: Lisa A. Koosis, The Midnight Girls // Bud Sparhawk, No Cord or Cable // Aliette de Bodard, Dancing for
the Monsoon // Ruth Nestvold, In the Middle of Nowhere with Company // William Highsmith, Deep Moves
Poetry: Howard V. Hendrix, Bumbershoot // Paul Christian Stevens, Across the Grimpen Sedge // Marge Simon,
Music Smooth as Fog
Abyss & Apex, #32
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
October 2009
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'The Joy of Small Cons: Campbell Conference 2009' by Christopher McKitterick.
Fiction: Paul Carlson, Mirror Girl // Christopher Lockhart, Lake of Dreams // Craig Watson, Epitaph in Oak //
Lavie Tidhar, Out of the Blue // David Sakmyster, The Wrong Basement // K. Bird Lincoln, A Recipe for Broke-
Heart Bread // Max Salnikov, The Chinese Chef was a Hologram
Poetry: Rachel Manija Brown, Nine Views of the Oracle
Abyss & Apex, #33
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
January 2010
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'On Writing Other Genders' by Wendy S. Delmater.
Fiction: Lisa A. Koosis, How We Fly // Bud Sparhawk, The Tortuous Path // Samantha Henderson, Deutoroi //
Tony Pi, Night of the Manticore // Edward Greaves, The Wishing Stone // Caren Gussoff, Anything Chocolate //
Amy Power Jansen, When White Roses Freeze
Poetry: Mary W. Jensen, Changeling // Richard Schiffman, Small // Gwendolyn Clare, Uttu's Garden // WC
Roberts, Waiting // Albert Melear, My Wife
Abyss & Apex, #34
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
April 2010
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'The Truth About Reprints' by Wendy S. Delmater.
Fiction: Mary Anne Mohanraj, Talking to Elephants // Jennifer Hykes, Burning Bright // E. Bundy, Boneless Corpse
// David Schibi, Mind's Eye View // Desmond Warzel, The Black Sheep of Vaerlosi // Lavie Tidhar, The Monks of
Udom Xhai // Mark Cole, I Expect There Will Be a Reason Soon
Poetry: Cheryl Wood Ruggiero, Translations from the Collective Unconscious: Ritual Song to Bless the Traveler //
Marvin Rabinovitch, The Time Traveler's Lament // Scott Edward Anderson, An "Unkindness" of Ravens
Abyss & Apex, #35
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
July 2010
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'News! Abyss & Apex Now Does Book Reviews. Here's What You Need to Know' by Wendy S. Delmater.
Fiction: Erin Cashier, Chinvat Bridge // Jennifer Greylyn, Fairyland // Jamie Mason, Invention // Eilis O'Neal, Ice
Moon Tale // Gwendolyn Clare, Prelude to Battle // Kit St. Germain, In the Bag
Poetry: Rich Ives, Frank the Lamp // Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Kafka on Vacation // Shivani Sivagurunathan,
Leaving Evolution // Joshua Gage, Tiamat
Abyss & Apex, #39
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
July 2011
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Editorial 'Poetry Staff Changes at Abyss & Apex' by Wendy S. Delmater.
Fiction: J. M. Sidorova, Death, Rebirth. An Heir, a Karakuri // Richard Marsden, Maria's Crossroads // Lucas
Ahlsen, The Windfarmer's Guest // Rajan Khanna, Holes // David Tallerman, Black Horticulture // Conor Powers-
Smith, Where's My Attitude?
Poetry: Michael R. Fosburg, Mischlings // A. B. S. Dudevant, In the End, Basking in Love // Benjamin Cartwright,
Terraforming Mars
Abyss & Apex, #42
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
April 2012
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'Steampunk and Peak Resources' by Wendy S. Delmater.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed here.
Fiction: Genevieve Valentine, Aurum // Jennifer Mason-Black, Sea Glass // Patrick Lundrigan, Burst Mode // Jay
Caselberg, She's Ultraviolet // Brent Knowles, Stone Eater // Luc Reid, RE: The Dark One, in Case It Should Arise
from Its Horrible Abyss
Poetry: Wade German, Event Horizon // Nandini Dhar, Her Tongue Thinks of Plagiarizing Itself // Linda D. Addison,
Dico, King of Hat Tricks // Michael R. Fosburg, How Strange the Starship's Shudder // Bruce Boston, Artist
Stranded on the Left Bank // semi, Untitled ("carving poems...") // Mary A. Turzillo, Galatea
Abyss & Apex, #45
Carmelo Rafala, ed.
January 2013
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Essay 'The Looking Glass' by Carmelo Rafala.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed here.
Fiction: Crystal Koo, Heartland // Jay Caselberg, Acrimony Grout // Ruth Nestvold, The Shadow Artist // Matthew
Wuertz, And Our Lady Splendor // Mjke Wood, The Third Attractor // J. P. Boyd, Grampy Cybercop
Poetry: Dennis Loranger, Lovely Moon // Leroy Gorman, dominant gene // Sandi Leibowitz, Lapis Lazuli //
Robert Borski, Parkour // Robert Frazier, Your Clone Knows What You Know // Patrick A. Smith, Astronomy for
Amateurs 2047 GMT, 02.27.09 30.542374 N, 84.438587 W // Melissa Frederick, Rigel's Light...
Abyss & Apex, #49
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
January 2014
Abyss & Apex Publishing
Webzine
Notes:
• Editorial 'Back in the Saddle' by Wendy S. Delmater, Poetry Introduction and 'Intro to Poetry 1Q2014' by John C.
Mannone.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed here.
Fiction: Jeremy Sim, Fade to Gunmetal // Ronald D. Ferguson, Slamnesia // Astrid S. Nielsen, Armas' House //
Travis Daniel Bow, The Three // Jennifer Dornan-Fish, Ixtab Takes a Day Off
Poetry: Jane Yolen, Everything Old Becomes New // Chloe N. Clark, Metal Lark // Valya Dudycz Lupescu,
Daughters of Melisseus // Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, Principles of Entropy // Noel Sloboda, Our Lady of Wrinkles //
Chloe N. Clark, Space Like Hands // Austin Wallace, At Emily Dickinson's House, 2003
Abyss & Apex, #24
Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
July 2007
ByrenLee Press
Webzine
Notes:
• Guest editorial 'Standing Down' by Frank Wu.
Fiction: Tony Pi, Metamorphoses in Amber // Patrick Hudson, Looking Out for Number One // Frank Wu, Love and
Death in the Time of Monsters // Mark A. Rayner, Under the Blue Curve // Desmond Warzel, Wikihistory
Poetry: Robin M. Mayhall, Sailors Take Warning // Gwen Campbell, I Wish For Wings // Robin M. Mayhall, Lament
for Titan
