{{Short description|Science fiction magazine}} {{Use shortened footnotes|date=February 2026}} {{Use Canadian English |date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates |date=August 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = Challenging Destiny (cover).jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = Cover of the first issue | editor = {{ubl|David M. Switzer|Robert P. Switzer}} | previous_editor = Graham Wall | publisher = Crystalline Sphere Publishing | firstdate = {{Start date and age|1997|05}} | finaldate = {{End date and age|2007|12}} | finalnumber = 25 | country = Canada | language = English | website = {{URL|challengingdestiny.com}} | issn = 1206-6656 }}
'''''Challenging Destiny''''' was a science fiction magazine published between 1997 and 2007.
== History ==
''Challenging Destiny'' was created by David{{nbsp}}M. Switzer and Graham Wall, respectively a professor and student at the University of Waterloo. They founded a small press in St. Marys, Ontario – Crystalline Sphere Publishing – to publish the magazine,<ref name="Nielsen 1997"/> and put out their first issue in May 1997. The two edited two issues, after which Robert{{nbsp}}P. Switzer replaced Wall. The magazine was printed until December 2003, after which it was published online.<ref name="Ashley 2024"/> A story from the 24th issue received the Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction in 2008.<ref name="SFADB"/> The 25th and final issue was published in December 2007.<ref name="Ashley 2024"/>
== Reception ==
The writer Mike Ashley, in the magazine's entry in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', wrote that the magazine's non-fiction articles were among its better features; these included interviews with authors, editorials by Switzer, and several essays by James Schellenberg.<ref name="Ashley 2024"/> ''Science Fiction Chronicle''{{'s}} Steve Sawicki, reviewing the eighth issue, was disappointed by the selection of stories, and felt that the interview with Phyllis Gotlieb did not maintain a topical focus.<ref name="Sawicki 2000"/>
== References ==
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<ref name="Ashley 2024">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Ashley |author-first=Mike |author-link=Mike Ashley (writer) |title=''Challenging Destiny'' |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/challenging_destiny |date=2024-02-09 |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-first=David |editor2-link=David Langford |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |edition=4th |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250425224458/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/challenging_destiny |archive-date=2025-04-25 |url-status=live |issn=3049-7612}}</ref> <ref name="Nielsen 1997">{{cite news |last=Nielsen |first=Ingrid |date=1997-07-11 |title=UW professor, student publish own science fiction magazine |work=Waterloo Region Record |page=A15 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/waterloo-region-record-uw-professor-stu/180000953/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> <ref name="Sawicki 2000">{{cite magazine |last=Sawicki |first=Steve |title=''Challenging Destiny'' #8 |date=August 2000 |magazine=Science Fiction Chronicle |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=27–28 |issn=1930-3858 |id={{ProQuest|205465928}} }}</ref> <ref name="SFADB">{{cite web |title=Aurora Awards 2008 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Aurora_Awards_2008 |website=Science Fiction Awards Database |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250708172519/https://www.sfadb.com/Aurora_Awards_2008 |archive-date=2025-07-08 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|challengingdestiny.com}} * {{ISFDB series|id=28274|title=''Challenging Destiny''}}
Category:Magazines established in 1997 Category:Magazines disestablished in 2007 Category:Science fiction magazines published in Canada Category:Science fiction webzines