Category Archives: Editorial

 Wendy Speaks: Yesterday , while we were working on editing an A&A story containing patois, there was a genre kerfuffle and Twit storm about a Strange Horizons reviewer who complained there was too much dialect in a piece by a … Continue reading →

This issue marks the 50th edition of Abyss & Apex Magazine of Speculative Fiction. We think it’s worth pausing here to note the occasion, and to see where we have been and where we are going. Just surviving in such … Continue reading →

We are pleased to present another excellent slate of poets for the April 2014 issue of Abyss & Apex. As usual, my style is to arrange poems in an emotional or thematic arc as opposed to alphabetical order by author’s … Continue reading →

Dear Readers, I am back in the saddle again. This will be the first edition with the reins firmly back in my hands. Trying to hand-off A&A to a willing editor was a learning experience, and while the switch did … Continue reading →

  Into The Deep Beyond Carmelo Rafala   I have been an avid follower of the Voyager spacecrafts since they were first launched in 1977. It was the middle of a new age of robotic missions to the planets of … Continue reading →

Story Still Matters   A Brief Look At Why Summer Blockbuster SF Writers Need To Go Back To Basic Writing 101 Class by Carmelo Rafala, Managing Editor   When I was a teenager we all looked forward to the arrival … Continue reading →

Satisfying Curiosity Carmelo Rafala Sometimes things take a surprising turn and fiction starts to look like fact. NASA’s Curiosity rover has made some of the most startling discoveries of any probe to land upon the Red Planet…. Wait, let me … Continue reading →

 Note: Carmelo Rafala grew up in Connecticut, USA, near Sandy Hook. The Looking Glass In any new circumstance there is a moment of reflection . . . As the new Managing Editor of Abyss and Apex I was going to … Continue reading →