Goodbye, Infinite Matrix. You will be remembered fondly.

Infinite Matrix is, or rather, was, one of the most exciting science fiction webzines around. Published periodically from August 2001 to January 2006, it featured short stories by authors including Cory Doctorow, Robert Sheckley (now sadly deceased) and Michael Swanwick. David Langford, who runs the most excellent science-fiction newsletter Ansible , wrote a weekly column for the site, cunningly named the Runcible Ansible (if you don't know what a runcible is, go here to find out!). And before Bruce Sterling started blogging over at Wired, he ran a blog called Schism Matrix on Infinite Matrix for two years.

Yep, there's a lot of good stuff on Infinite Matrix, so it's sad to see the site go. But it's final, January 2006 issue's chock-full of great content. Highlights for me included an essay by William Gibson on how he discovered history and science fiction in his youth (and how the two may be the same thing!) and a new novella (or novelette, as the site describes it) by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross calledAppeals Court. The site's going out with a bang, that's for sure.