Editing Alternative 3 (section)

== Reception ==
Austin writes that he was both delighted and disturbed by the ''Alternative 3'' controversy, and adds that the reasons "a clever hoax, openly admitted to be such by its creators, should continue to exercise the fascination it so obviously does the best part of a generation after its first appearance is beyond my feeble powers of analysis and explanation."<ref>[http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/121_a3.shtml Fortean Times Magazine | Articles |<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041010123513/http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/121_a3.shtml |date=10 October 2004 }}</ref>