 A selection of stories from "Beyond" was published in paperback form in 1963, also under the title "Beyond".James Gunn, a historian of science fiction, regarded the magazine as the best of the fantasy magazines launched in the early 1950s, and science fiction encyclopedist Donald H. Tuck contended it printed very good material.Not every critic viewed "Beyond" as completely successful, however; P. Schuyler Miller, in a 1963 review, commented that the stories were most successful when they did not try to emulate "Unknown".