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The October 1, 2026 Abyss & Apex is published. Read fiction by Hall Jameson, Lancelot Schaubert, Raul Gonzalvez de Aguila, Lynn Gazis, R.J. Gerard, David McGillveray, Alex Scott, and William H. Hilf. Plus genre poetry and small press book reviews.
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Sounds intriguing.
Parents! Grandparents! Aunts and uncles! Teachers! Librarians!
I had the great privilege to beta read this upper middle grade book!
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It was fun and funny, and it took twists I never saw coming. This is great for the kids in your life. And you’ll like it, too!
MAGIC WAS FORBIDDEN. NOW IT MAY BE THEIR ONLY HOPE.
Leif Andreist has a talent for just about everything, but winning a fight isn't one of them.
At Archon Academy, battle rankings make heroes, and Leif can't win a sparring match to save his life. Then a mysterious rune ignites on his wrist, marking him as the first bearer of Old Magic in a thousand years.
In Vederfiel, machines rule, and magic is forbidden. Leif's strange new power could change everything. It could also make him the most hunted boy in the kingdom.
When his father vanishes on a dangerous mission, Leif sets out to find him, joined by his best friend, his school nemesis, and a teacher with secrets of his own. But the deeper they venture into Vederfiel's hidden history, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
Old magic is waking. The Soul Stealer wants to control Leif and his kingdom before it can return.
Leif has never been the hero anyone expected. Now the fate of a kingdom may depend on the one thing that makes him different.
From our archives: “The Third Attractor.”
No...it couldn't be.
How could they tell when an AI perhaps had a soul?
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From our archives: "Burst Mode."
Was the AI ready for the mission to Saturn? Or had the person it was learning from done something to it?
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From our archives: "The Mind of a Nuke."
Can an AI like me have dreams? Of course. I’m the neural network for the most advanced cruise missile in the world, traveling at five thousand miles per hour towards my target.
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From our Archives: "Maintenance Call"
Can I schedule a time?
Then, on the day of your visit,
I will be sure to turn her off,
Carry myself down to the pub,
And complain with the other husbands
About the troubles this model of wife
Can make for an unprepared man.
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From our archives: "AIs Don’t Feel Guilty."
Depending on an AI in wartime.
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This week we are going to share Abyss & Apex stories about, or containing, AI (which some are now calling SI--super intelligence.) A&A has a lot of them! We'll start with "Per Jur AI," where an expert system is confronted in court.
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A&A Reviews IN FLUX
Talk about a stunning opening! A man slows time long enough to roll it back a few slow-as-syrup seconds and save the life of a woman who’s body about to be murdered. She survives, and he takes her to his home in a strange dimension he calls the Flux...
In Flux is very hard to categorize. It’s part historical novel, part fantasy, part sci-fi, and part romance. And it works on all those levels. A very enjoyable and satisfying read!
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A&A Reviews TIME CLOCKS.
It’s a wild ride, a mystery with in a mystery, a high-tech thriller: historical and yet very grounded in our era. Great characters and surprises build to an unexpected resolution (quite a few of them, actually.) This was a fun book that kept me guessing!
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Book review! A&A Reviews AGENCY.
Ciaran MacCool is an agent who is a contractor for the military in Syria under an assumed name. He accomplishes his work, his covert mission, and is nearly killed–which blows his cover. But the reader wonders, who sent him? There are tantalizing clues that it’s someone, or something…extremely unusual.
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New genre poetry! “Mysteries” by Jennifer Crow.
we hope only for numbness
to spread from synapse to synapse until our nerves
melt into protoplasmic goo, a mystery for aliens
to ponder...
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New genre poetry! “Alice” by John C. Mannone.
I feel an uncanny calm despite the turbulence plaguing Alice’s world, and the mirror of this one, reflecting a psychedelic anthem of white rabbits and purple haze to escape through the maze of the mind. But there is no escape.
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"A mountain does not grow taller when praised,
nor smaller when ignored.
Stop measuring your soul by the noise of passing storms."
New genre poetry! “Prearranged Departure” by Ann Thornfield-Long.
I am still chockfull of day // so I watch the fireflies who send me words in Morse Code: Dah-dah-dit. Dah-dah-dah, Dah-dit-dit.
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New genre poetry! “Vindication” by Eileen Tynion.
“There are no beings in the sky,”
…………my mother said to me.
“And nowhere else does life exist
…………beyond this world of ours.”
“But mama,” said the child I was...
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New genre poetry! “The Body as Archive” by Joely Williams.
The body is not a fast archive.
But it holds. It always holds.
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New genre poetry! “Triton at Perihelion” by Stuart Greenhouse.
I move, a drop; 672
cycles of your nervous heart I’ll thaw; 38
degrees Kelvin, then 39.3, just warm enough
to weep skyward, life-like; that is, to sublimate
my methane-and-nitrogen-clenched outer face
from rink-smooth chitin to a moist, warm air
life-bearing-like — you breathe nitrogen
gas mostly, where you live, don’t you?
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New genre poetry! “Vinespeak” by Lindsay Duncan.
The poet speaks: The terminology I learned while studying for Certified Specialist of Wine grew upon the trellis of the other lines...
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