Paradox (magazine)

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The cover of Paradox issue 5 (Summer 2004)

Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction (also known as Paradox Magazine or simply Paradox) is a semiannual literary magazine featuring original short historical fiction in all of its forms up to novella length. This includes mainstream historical fiction as well as other genre fiction with historical themes. For example, works of alternate history, historical whodunnits, historical fantasy, period horror, time travel, Arthurian legend and retold myth regularly appear in its pages. The magazine also features original historical poetry, reviews of historical novels and films, and interviews with notable historical novelists.

Paradox was initially published quarterly, from April 2003 through January 2004. It was then switched to a semiannual release schedule and has maintained this schedule to the present. From 2004 through 2006, issues were released every June and December. Beginning with the eleventh issue (Autumn 2007), issues are scheduled to be released every April and October. Although Paradox is a print magazine, the editor experimented with publishing a bonus online issue in January 2004.

One distinctive aesthetic feature of the magazine is its use of historical artwork. In addition to using newly commissioned art for a story's accompanying illustration, stories are frequently illustrated by being matched with appropriate paintings or photographs by artists past. Vintage photographic portraits and U.S. Civil War and World War I photographs have been so employed in Paradox as have paintings by such artists as Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, George Bellows, William Bouguereau, Gustave Doré, Rudolf Ernst, M. C. Escher, Jean-Léon Gérôme, John William Godward, Francisco Goya, David Roberts, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, J. M. W. Turner, and Wu Guxiang, among many others.

Two stories published in 2006 in Paradox were among the seven short-form finalists for the 2006 Sidewise Award for Alternate History—"O, Pioneer" by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff and "The Meteor of the War" by Andrew Tisbert.^[1]

1 Editor
2 Published Authors
3 Authors Interviewed
4 ISSN
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Editor

Christopher M. Cevasco, editor/publisher, 2003 to present

[edit] Published Authors

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The cover of Paradox issue 6 (Winter 2004-2005)

Paradox publishes fiction and poetry by both new authors and established professionals. Noted contributors have included:

[edit] Authors Interviewed

Interviews with historical novelists and writers, conducted by the editor of Paradox, are regularly featured in the magazine. Noted authors interviewed have included: