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Reviews for Issue 6

• Frank Dutkiewicz, Rise Reviews: "a group of work that runs outside the lines of most literature, [...] submerg[ing] the reader, [...] allowing us to see, feel, and relate[...]"
• Cate Gardner, Skull Salad Reviews: "poignant, ... engaging, ... delightful, ... Lovely."

Reviews for Issue 5

• Terry Grimood, The Future Fire: "I can't remember the last time I read a periodical and was impressed by every single work.... There is variety and originality, and a tension created by the range of genre and material."
• Charles Tan, Bibliophile Stalker: "[T]here's a diverse cultural zeitgeist from which the contributors draw.../ [GUD is] meaty...with a diverse selection of fiction, art, and poetry."
• Seamus Sweeney, SF Site: "Greatest Uncommon Denominator lives up to its promise as a high-quality forum for new voices."
• Jade Blackwater, Brainripples: "Everything in GUD 5 is vivid, brilliant, and inquisitive...you're going to want to suck the marrow out of this journal until you're left with the satisfying skeleton."
• Mark Watson, Best SF: reviews of Getting Yourself On and Nature's Children.
• Sam Tomaino, SFRevu: "This magazine continues to publish the kinds of stories you won't find elsewhere. And that’s a good thing. [...] GUD is that different kind of magazine that should be supported. Give it a try!"

Reviews for Issue 4

• Anne Brudevold for Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: "GUD will wake up your sensibilities, will challenge the things most precious, most sacred to you (your pet cat, your love, your belief in order) and turn them upside down, inside out, splay them and return them to you, intact, and glowing with new possibilities. Read GUD and you’ll never be the same."
• Rod MacDonald for SF Crowsnest: "such a wide variety there seems to be something to please everyone"
• Isaac Espriu: "Issue 4 delivers first-rate fiction, poetry and art of almost every genre and those in between, and some not yet invented."
• Frank Burton for Dogmatika: "Regardless of form or genre, GUD publishes original, thoughtful, subversive and entertaining work by writers who deserve the exposure."

Reviews for Issue 3

• Future Fire: "If the aim of Greatest Uncommon Denominator magazine is to be eclectic and challenging, then issue #3 has certainly succeeded on both counts. Enthusiastically recommended."
• Ibbetson Street Press: "There is far too much good stuff to review thoroughly in this volume but it is a must read. GUD continues to live up to its name and to provide its readers with work that is far above the base line of modern (or post-modern) literature."
• The Fix : "From the accessible to the avant-garde, these have one thing in common: a love for language and imagery that reaches down and touches to the bone."
• SF Revu: "GUD is really something completely different. You don't get stories like this anywhere else. You should give it a try."
• Small Press Review: "Gud is a bewildering / rewarding combination of high artistic achievement / experimentalism / innovation and everydayness."
• Rich Horton (Iss 2 + 3): "[...] a very interesting and ambitious salad of a magazine.
• Susie Hawes: "[A] wondrous mixture of the strange, the chilling, the exciting and the hilarious, all served with a dash of poetic style and a plethora of beautifully rendered illustrations."
• Bill Ward: "Quirky, smartly-crafted, and unexpected — GUD is for those with big appetites and adventurous palates, and I heartily recommend it."
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Reviews for Issue 2

• Donald Schneider: "The artful combination of literary styling and genre plotting is most effectively accomplished and renders GUD a first-rate publication of a hybrid nature; one thoroughly professional in tenor."
• Ibbetson Street Press: "Greatest Uncommon Denominator brings together a group of provocative, disorienting, imaginative and crafted pieces of writing with disconcerting confidence."
• Rich Horton (Iss 2 + 3): "[...] a very interesting and ambitious salad of a magazine.
• Whispers : "Much of the fiction and poetry is unusual; some infuriating, some breathtaking, some experimental and one suspects deliberately vague. [...] GUD is one to watch out for."
• Small Press Review: "[...] a major newcomer of a magazine that should be in the collections of all serious university,public /and/ private libraries."
• The Fix : "[...] rich with imagery and atmosphere."
• Nostalgia for Infinity: "If the praises sung above have convinced you to read this far they’ve probably also convinced you to try GUD out for yourself. Trust that impulse."
• Will Couvillier: "[...] a very sweet issue, offering many stories that stand out [...]"

Reviews for Issue 1

• SF Diplomat : "[...] everything about GUD screams sophistication and professionalism in a way that most other genre magazines do not."
• The Fix : "[...] diverse, interesting, well-written, sometimes annoying, and mostly intriguing.
• Whispers : "[...] a magazine that builds its own fantastic aesthetic from a diverse range of building-blocks, even the real world.
• Best SF: "[...] a good mix of contemporary, speculative fiction [...]"
• Book Reviews by Crystal: "This magazine is [...] just full of wonder and excitement with each scroll of the page"
• Ibbetson Street Press: "[...] a cutting edge tribute to fiction as a form and to language as transcendence"
• BloggerNews: "[...] a 212 page high quality magazine covering all aspects of the literary world [...]"

Reviews for Issue 0

• Ann Wilkes : "The stories were [...] very dark. But they were also well written and unique."
• Whispers : "[...] a good first issue. [...] some great pieces of fiction [...]"
• SF Site: "[...] polished [...] a distinct ambitious attitude. Worth a look [...]
• Black Gate: "[...] decidedly strange stories, poetry, essays and artwork [...] Worth the price of the issue [...]"
• NewPages: "[...] a splendid collection of the unexpected, surprising, and unsettling [...]"
• SciFi UK Review: "[...] It’s a breath of fresh air, in an otherwise, somewhat, anticipatable market."
• New World Reviews: "GUD [...] is in fact the greatest magazine I've ever read yet."
• Best SF: "As far as the fiction is concerned, this is as strong a semiprozine as I've seen."
• SFRevu: "[...] this is a nice little magazine and is well worth your support!"
• Ibbetson Street Press: "[...] top-notch modern literature which embodies both eclecticism and unity. [...] Get hooked!"
• Tangent Online: "[...] carefully crafted, and all the offerings were appealing."
• Critical Mick: "[...] good literature! Edgy, artistic, fresh up-and-comers. [...] No recycled ideas!"