Apex Magazine - August 2012 (Issue 39)    by Apex Publications
Price: $2.99 USD. 18320 words. Language: English. Published on August 4, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. This issue contains fiction from Genevieve Valentine, Kat Howard, Marie Brenna, and Nir Yaniv, nonfiction by Jim C. Hines, and an interview with Genevieve Valentine.

Serrys Chronicles: Death Wish    by Joseph Nicholson
Price: $2.99 USD. 100860 words. Language: English. Published by Malachite Quills Publishing  on June 26, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure.
When Khai’Xander Khail, a retired war veteran and hero of the Seryysan People, discovers a government plot to raze the megalopolis Seryys City, to for a large deposit of a precious metal beneath its sprawling streets, he's ultimately forced into an adventure that takes him deep within Vyysarri Space. While there, he meets an aged Vyysarri with a message to deliver: an even deeper, darker secret.

Hathor on Mars    by Terry Plotkin
Price: $0.99 USD. 69470 words. Language: English. Published on September 7, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
The book opens with a crash landing on Mars. The conflict surrounds a pyramid that has been found on Mars and a wealthy businessman who finances the trip. The information that the pyramid holds and the scandal of the ship’s demise cause upheaval and eventually a paradigm shift on an already crisis-driven Earth.

Evolve    by Barbara Rayne
Price: $5.99 USD. 45290 words. Language: English. Published on January 11, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
Population was seriously dumbed down,believed the Moon was an inhabitable rock,while the rulers of the world were busy building cities over there and silently relocating.Few people payed attention to their thoughts and made their very first step to evolve.With the help of the native inhabitants of the Moon, it will be their chance to have an incredibly powerful mind.But what can three people do?

We're Going to War!    by J.I. Greco
Price: $3.99 USD. 31410 words. Language: English. Published on July 8, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
It's just another day in the Wasteland... While Rudy's celebrating getting hitched, Trip's declaring war on a cult of alien-god worshiping squid people. But is his ragtag army of robots built from spare parts up to the challenge of the Cthulists' genetically-engineered tree tanks? No, no it is not.

Full Medical    by Steven M. Moore
Price: $2.99 USD. 93210 words. Language: English. Published on August 29, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
It is 2053. Only the privileged few who can afford full coverage have access to all the medical advances of the last fifty years. Periodic terrorist attacks are the aftermath of instability and wars in the Middle East. The economy is dragging people into despair. This is a revised second edition of Steve Moore’s Full Medical, a sci-fi thriller about a human cloning conspiracy.

The Pandora Stone    by Mundania Press
Price: $4.99 USD. 77290 words. Language: English. Published on October 31, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
Arlo Triplethorn doesn’t match the holo-vid image of a contract courier. Short, scrawny, and unremarkable in every way, he suffers from recurring nightmares about his one disastrous encounter with the cobra. The bloodiest war in human history was fought with the cobra, an alien race prone to senseless aggression and unrestrained violence.

Proto-Probability    by Daniel Dysson
Price: $9.55 USD. 105260 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
The weapon that can claim the stars and every soul in the world. A weapon that reality itself needs help to overcome. An office worker and security driver from New York City escape into the arms of the weapon's owners. Men who will kill millions to safeguard their exclusive access to terror. Power is the core. But power rests on the quantum void. Is there a chance after all probability ceases?

Mother's Little Helpers    by Macaulay C. Hunter
Price: $0.99 USD. 8980 words. Language: English. Published on May 29, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
Taken for granted by her family, stay-at-home mom Nicole is simply looking for a little respect - even if it's just from a couple of robotic sock sorters.