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• 2 • From the Editor (Paradox, Spring 2009) • essay by Christopher M. Cevasco [as by Chris Cevasco]
• 3 • New Books (Paradox, Spring 2009) • essay by Greg Beatty and Lisa Jensen
• 3 •   Review: Drood by Dan Simmons • review by Greg Beatty
• 3 • Review of the nongenre novel "The Virgin Queen's Daughter" by Ella March Chase • essay by Lisa Jensen
• 4 • The Artist and His Mother • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 4 •  The Artist and His Mother • interior artwork by
  Chŏng Sŏn^?Jeong Seon
• 8 • Beautiful Calamity • short story by Maura McHugh
• 8 •  Beautiful Calamity • interior artwork by Vincent van Gogh
• 13 • The Exquisite Treason of Wu Sangui • poem by Darrell Schweitzer
• 14 • The Place That Makes You Happiest • short story by T. L. Morganfield
• 14 •  The Place That Makes You Happiest • interior artwork by GAK
• 21 • Film (Paradox, Spring 2009) • essay by Alana K. Harrison and Andrea Kail
• 22 • Like a Stone Wall • short story by Danny Adams
• 28 • Drowning the Sacred Chickens • poem by Darrell Schweitzer
• 29 • Salt Feels No Pain • short story by Marie Brennan
• 29 •  Salt Feels No Pain • interior artwork by
  Gustave Doré^?Gustave Dore
• 30 • Camlann • poem by Rachael Pruitt
• 31 •  Camlann • interior artwork by Arthur Rackham
• 32 • Last Voyage • novelette by Natasha Simonova
• 32 •  Last Voyage • interior artwork by Herbert James Draper
• 40 • For Want of Sympathy • novelette by Ernesto Brosa
• 40 •  For Want of Sympathy • interior artwork by Sir John Everett Millais (variant of Ophelia 1852) [as by John Everett Millais]
• 49 • Contributors (Paradox, Spring 2009) • essay by uncredited