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Qi Yan traveled to Blue Star and became a professional teacher at Sanlitun, awakening the "Master Teacher Black Technology System". He selected 30 ambitious college students and led them to study high-end technology. Student Qian Weiguo studied controlled nuclear fusion technology, and his results shocked the Longke Institute, but he was arranged by the dean to go to the electronics factory for internship. In the electronics factory, Qi Yan and the...
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Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish every other month. Issue 129 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIALEditorial by Jason Sizemore ORIGINAL FICTIONIt Happened in 'Loontown by Lavie TidharCity...
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In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted writers are boldly exploring the mythic past, the paranormal present, and the promises and perils of myriad alternate worlds and futures. There are almost too many new and intriguing stories published every year for any reader to be able to experience them all. So how to make sure you haven't missed any future classics?
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Li Liang was originally an ordinary person in modern society. He died unexpectedly during a kidney donation operation, but was rescued from a liquid nitrogen freezer by Mercedes in 3021. After waking up, he became an intern at Mercedes Bionic Pet Hospital. In this era, Xi'an Corporation ruled the world and ordinary people lived in poverty. While Li Liang was sending his central nervous system core for repair, he discovered that it involved illegal...
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The end of the world is approaching, and the city is being destroyed by monsters. Chen Hao's orphanage is no exception, and the director, Mama, is seriously injured. In order to save the director, Chen Hao and Wang Cong decided to go to Qingyun Peak to find the 'resurrection herb' that can cure any injury. On the way, they encountered various monsters and went through many difficulties and dangers, but they finally succeeded in finding the resurrection...
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Oah Martinsen was originally a modern worker who died suddenly from overwork and traveled through time to become a beggar in Shanghai during the Republic of China. When he was dependent on the little beggar Xiaoqi, he accidentally discovered a warehouse and used the system storage function to obtain a large amount of supplies, but he also got into trouble. After saving the injured Su Mo, he activated the role-playing system and obtained the "Surgeon"...
7) My Hero
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George Sunday lives in London with the love of his life, Nurse Janet Dawkins. Their busy lives are overshadowed by one unique yet significant element - George is Thermoman, a superhero. The humour and strains of their relationship (she doesn't understand that Thermoman's tights must not go in the washing machine; he doesn't realise that you don't French-kiss your girlfriend's mother - a light peck will do) make for captivating viewing.
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The event is almost over.
Before Raven lies a new ball of questions that he cannot unravel alone. His acquaintance with Niyara makes it clear that the universe is not only a boundless bunch of galaxies but an entire system of thousands of servers connected by a network of teleports, inhabited by many different civilizations.
Raven is aware that he is far from undergoing one such trip himself. Instead, he decided to focus on new techniques, old friends,...
9) Frankenstein
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La obra maestra de Mary Shelley (1797-1851), en el segundo centenario de su redacción: el doctor Frankenstein crea a un ser abocado a la soledad.El joven doctor Frankenstein ha logrado su más ambicioso proyecto: crear vida a partir de despojos humanos. Pero ha dado vida a un monstruo que siembra el terror allí por donde pasa, pues tiene sentimientos y grandes ilusiones. Su horrible aspecto lo condena a la soledad y al deseo de venganza hacia su...
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Five Weeks in a Balloon is not only the first installment in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, but also the first of Verne's works to earn him widespread popularity as a writer of science fiction and adventure novels.
Following his invention of an ingenious new air balloon capable of long-distance flight, Dr. Samuel Fergusson embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with his trusted servant, Joe, and loyal friend, Dick Kennedy....
11) Womb City
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"A fierce, furious, and fearless debut that has its finger on the pulse-no, the gushing wound-of our world's most invasive cruelties." -Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Shape of Water
"Masterful . . . Tsamaase has created a disturbing techno dystopia in a future Botswana that terrifies with its echoes of our own increasingly authoritarian cyber-policed world. This beautifully written work haunts and upends expectations...
12) The Librarians
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With magic returned to the world, the Librarians are needed now more then ever. Jacob Stone, Eezekiel Jones and Cassandra Cillian have taken on the role of full-time Librarians, and together with their guardian, Eve Baird, long-time Librarian, Flynn Carsen and their caretaker, Jenkins, they will face all the challenges that this new age of magic is bringing to the world. An ancient spell has brought some of the greatest fictional villains off the...
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On Christmas Day, the already disaster-stricken human race received new tragic news a meteorite with a diameter of over ten kilometres was about to collide with the Earth. Governments around the world suppressed the news to avoid panic, but as the meteorite gradually approached, the news still spread like wildfire. People began to panic-buy supplies. As a web writer with a wealth of imagination and logical thinking, Chen Xin decided to dig for a shelter...
14) In Darkness
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Souls shrouded in darkness…
Stuck working as a barmaid for her demanding father, Anna dreams of adventure. When mysterious strangers enter the bar, she overhears they seek Zancrela, an ancient fortress filled with treasure and a magical library. Taking her chance, she offers to guide them. The conditions: deliver Zancrela or die.
As they journey through the wilderness, she discovers their secret: they are vampires. And most view her as food. One...
15) Ender's Game
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From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender"...
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First published in a 1842 edition of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, The Masque of the Red Death tells the story of Prince Prospero as he tries to avoid a plague by confining himself and his nobles to a masquerade in an abbey. Often considered a gothic allegory, the story reflects on not only life and death but also the illusion of control.
18) From Beyond
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From Beyond is a short story by science fiction and horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10). The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person's pineal...
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Soon after the American Civil War, Confederate soldier John Carter joins the gold rush in Arizona. After striking a vein of gold, Carter runs into trouble with the natives of the area. In attempts to evade their pursuit, Carter hides in a cave, unaware of its magical properties. Mysteriously, Carter is transported to Mars, which the planet inhabitants call "Barsoom". When Carter discovers that the gravity difference between Mars and Earth has granted...
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