The Third Alternative

Any magazine intending to publish short fiction invariably has to choose whether it wishes to fit into any one genre (for example, the meta-genre of science fiction and fantasy) or whether to aim for Establishment accolades by publishing literary works on any topic but with a variety of Themes. Here, however, the publishers have opted for a Third Alternative, that of mixing genres (and, indeed, of seemingly having as their mission objective the destruction of all genre boundaries), and it works reasonably well, even if at times I’m not sure at precisely whom a particular piece was supposed to be aimed. The fiction content of the magazine comprises mostly ...  Read the complete review