Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
Winner of the 2023 Locus Award for Best Anthology

A 2023 NAACP Image Award Nominee
A 2023 British Fantasy Award Nominee

A NPR Best of the Year pick
A Book Riot Best SFF of the Year pick

[A] magnificent and wide-ranging anthology . . . A must-read for all genre fans.--Publishers Weekly, starred review

From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country's ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother's ability to change her appearance--and perhaps the world.

Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising--it's already here.

T'Challa, the Black Panther, returns to Wakanda to show Monica Lynne his home. But he finds violence in the streets, discontent brewing in his people, and the name Killmonger following him everywhere he goes. When a revered storyteller--and T'Challa's mentor--is murdered, he uncovers the first threads of a growing rebellion that threatens to engulf his beloved Wakanda.

Wakanda's high-tech king must travel the savannah, into the deepest jungles and up the snow-topped mountains of his homeland in this prose adaptation of the landmark comics series by Don McGregor, Rich Buckler and Billy Graham. Discover the life and culture of the Wakandans, and see T'Challa channel the strength of his ancient bloodline to take out foes such as Venomm, Malice and the fearsome Erik Killmonger!

Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction tales of ancient waters in all its myriad forms. Meet techno savvy water spirits, bayou saints and sirens, robots and river rootwomen, a pod of joyful space whales, and a castle of water-born terrors and mysteries. Including work by Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, and other breakout beautiful voices, these stories and poems celebrate the most vital of elemental forces, water.

T'Challa, the Black Panther, returns to Wakanda to show Monica Lynne his home. But he finds violence in the streets, discontent brewing in his people, and the name Killmonger following him everywhere he goes. When a revered storyteller--and T'Challa's mentor--is murdered, he uncovers the first threads of a growing rebellion that threatens to engulf his beloved Wakanda.

Wakanda's high-tech king must travel the savannah, into the deepest jungles and up the snow-topped mountains of his homeland in this prose adaptation of the landmark comics series by Don McGregor, Rich Buckler and Billy Graham. Discover the life and culture of the Wakandans, and see T'Challa channel the strength of his ancient bloodline to take out foes such as Venomm, Malice and the fearsome Erik Killmonger!

Sheree Renée Thomas gives us a whirlpool of poem and story, a 'wild and strangeful breed' of cosmology. . .―Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, Pulitzer Prize Winner.

The award-winning Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues returns with a new collection of Hoodoo, fantasy, magic myths, and lore.

Meet a spacefaring prophet of the future digging in the crates of earth's past, follow intrepid ancient body snatchers in search of the elixir of life, fall in love with a shapeshifting, alien goddess intent on the world's most epic family reunion. Beware of the Candylady whose sweets hide secrets yet to be seen, and enter a legendary diner whose culinary wares change fates.

These tales masterfully speak to the magic and mystery, the rhythms and blues of the soul's turn through life and beyond. Short stories that invite readers into a world where ancient traditions and futuristic visions collide in a symphony of magic, music, and adventure, tapping into that natural power and rhythms of a natural world that is connected to futuristic technology.

These stories explore the supernatural rhythms of music, history, and culture, Hoodoo as an ancient modern spiritual tradition and folklore, the whimsy and horrors of life, and the realms of the impossible. It's a multigenre strange and wondrous brew.

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. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

This month Sheree Ren e Thomas guest-edits a special Zodiac themed issue

EDITORIAL
Under Ancient Stars, New Dreams Are Born-Sheree Ren e Thomas

FICTION
For Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain't Near Enough-Eden Royce
Prism-Stefanie Elrick
La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself-J.M. Guzman
Gasping-Brandon O'Brien
Jewel of the Vashwa-Jordan Kurella
The Barnum Effect-Celia Neri

POETRY
How to Paint Mercury-Mary Soon Lee
Capricorn-Tara Betts
How to Fly by Neptune-Mary Soon Lee
Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter)-Sherese Francis
How to Speak to Pluto-Mary Soon Lee
A Theorized Form of Matter-Ashely Adams

NONFICTION
'There's No Racism Here?' A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic-Kiini Ibura Salaam

COLUMNS
Page Advice-Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant
Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast-Laura Zats and Erik Hane

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Eden Royce-Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Stacey Robinson-Russell Dickerson