From richard.horton@sff.net Mon Mar 15 23:42:09 2004 Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:05:41 -0600 From: Rich Horton Newsgroups: sff.people.richard-horton, sff.discuss.short-fiction Subject: Summary: The Infinite Matrix, 2003 Summary, The Infinite Matrix, 2003 The Infinite Matrix (www.infinitematrix.net) has survived another year, though I gather that the financial issues which have plagued it are not entirely solved. Eileen Gunn is doing extraordinary work in keeping this fine site afloat. This year they published a total of 61 stories, one a reprint. The original stories ran to some 53,000 words. As before, the great bulk of the stories were short-shorts -- the concluding pile of Michael Swanwick's stories written to Goya's Los Caprichos etching, and a number of Richard Kadrey "Viper Wire" pieces. One story was a novelette, the rest shorter. My favorites were one of Kadrey's pieces, "Black Neurology: A Love Story", and Benjamin Rosenbaum's "The Death Trap of Dr. Nefario". There was also worthwhile work by the Jr. and Sr. Rudy Ruckers, by Douglas Lain, by Kiini Ibura Salaam, by Terry Bisson, by Christopher Rowe, and by Chris Nakashima-Brown. I hope to see more longer pieces in coming months -- The Infinite Matrix has been consistently interesting since its founding, it only needs to find a way to afford to publish more regularly.