Review of Challenging Destiny
Number 14, June 2002

This review is by Rich Horton, from Locus (September 2002, Issue 500, Vol. 49 No. 3). It appears here with permission.

The vagaries of magazine distribution and scheduling being what they are, this month I have neither of the Dell magazines (Analog and Asimov's) to consider. Thus I can take a look at several small press publications -- increasingly a source of exciting and unconventional SF.

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The Canadian small press magazine Challenging Destiny has been around for five years now, and the June issue is its fourteenth. The best story is from Hugh Cook, a Challenging Destiny regular. In "The Trial of Edgar Allan Poe" a journalist schemes to be allowed to cover the title event, one of several trials in which people from the past have been snatched out of time, just prior to their deaths, to stand trial for their supposed crimes. Cook considers the propriety of judging people of the past according to contemporary standards, and finds his way to a neat conclusion that nicely emphasizes his point.

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