Paradoxa publishes articles on genre literature: science fiction, horror, mysteries, children's literature, romance, comic studies, the fantastic, best sellers, the occult, westerns, oral literature, and more.
From Anti-Colonial Struggle to Neoliberal Immiseration: Mohammed Dib’s Who Remembers the Sea, Sony Labou Tansi’s Life and a Half and Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia, Pages 17-46 Mark Bould
Rethinking Apocalypse in African SF, Pages 47-64 Lisa Yaszek
Specters of Cyberpunk: Haunted Spaces in Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland and Zoo City, Pages 65-88 Malisa Kurtz
Projected Nigerias: Kajola and its Contexts, Pages 89-112 Noah Tsika
Afro-mythology and African Futurism: The Politics of Imagining and Methodologies for Contemporary Creative Research Practices, Pages 113-130 Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City, Pages 131-152 Marleen Barr
Paradoxa Interview with Minister Faust: “Imhotep Hop vs. The White Jesus Armies of the Technofuture”, Pages 153-162 Patrick B. Sharp
Paradoxa Interview with Andrea Hairston: “Prophet Against Empire: Interview”, Page 163-172 Grace Dillon (Anishinaabe)
The Utopian Fantastic in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death, Pages 173-190 Lisa Dowdall
Not If, When: Ian McDonald’s African Unsafari, Pages 191-208 Neil Easterbrook
Welcome to Wakanda: Reforming African Adventure the Marvel Way, Pages 209-234 De Witt Douglas Kilgore
Sun Ra’s Otherworldliness, Pages 235-252 John Rieder
Bred to be Superhuman: Comic Books and Afrofuturism in Octavia Butler’s Patternist Series, Pages 253-288 Gerry Canavan
Paradoxa Interview Nalo Hopkinson: “Somehow Déclassé”: Pages 289-302 Gary K. Wolfe & Jonathan Strahan
Every Working Day, Every Sweaty Evening: A Review of Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, Pages 303-308 Nick Mamatas
Cruising (Re)Collection: A Review of Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York, Pages 309-314 Andrew M. Butler
A Brave and Contrary Thing: Review of AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, Pages 315-320 Nisi Shawl
A Time to Kill: Review of The Shining Girls, Pages 321-325 Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed