[1][2] The magazine is known for its high quality fiction[3] and has published stories by authors such as Dave Wolverton,[4] M. Shayne Bell,[4] Dan Wells,[5] and Orson Scott Card, articles by Algis Budrys,[6] as well as poetry and articles by poet and literary critic Michael R. Collings.

One of its goals is to aid new writers by providing substantially more detailed feedback than is common in the SF publishing industry.

[10] Four years later, Orson Scott Card gave a speech at the university about morality in writing, which showed some of the students and faculty that a serious, academic forum for discussion of science fiction writing was a possibility at BYU, but there weren't enough students interested in trying to make things work at that time.

The department in charge assigned Marion Smith, the professor whose name is now part of the title of the Life, the Universe, & Everything symposium, to take care of Bova while he wasn't speaking.

By the late 1980s and early 1990s, a new crop of young writers and editors had taken the helm at The Leading Edge, many of whom would go on to professional success.